It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.
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I was upset about the Vanity Fair article. I had one moment when I got emotional because I hadn't sat down with an interviewer since this whole debacle took place. It happened for a second and then it was over.
How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.
Now happily married to Irene for over ten years, we clearly told the interviewer how homosexuality is a dangerous, destructive and unnatural lifestyle... how no one is born gay... yet a behavior that can and should be permanently changed.
The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.
You may have to listen to a lot of stories before you get the data you need ... but it's up to the interviewer to stay on track.
The kinds of questions you ask tell the interviewer how well prepared you are for the interview. Asking questions about their product range--or specific services you couldn't find out simply by reading the cover letter you received from the company or from the employment ad--means you did some independent research about the company on the Internet or at the library. This shows the prospective employer that you're serious about the job.
The funny thing is, it's not about the answer, it's how you react. All the interviewer is trying to do is derail you. If you throw a question like that and they shut down, that's probably not the person you want on your floor at deadline time.
People talk way too much. The best interviews are the ones where the interviewer is doing a lot of the talking.
Use the Internet to read press releases and other information about the company so that you can take at least three pieces of positive information about them into the interview. You can integrate that information into some of your answers, and it will prepare you to respond well if the interviewer asks what you know about the company.
I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. Responding politely to inane comments by an NBC interviewer, Atlanta Olympics.
No matter which format you choose, it's crucial to act quickly when sending a thank-you letter to your interviewer.
Maybe it doesn't take a nationally known star to do the job, and Giuliana is a terrific news interviewer. She would do a great job.