Lips Quote by Mohamedou Ould Slahi

I have listened to tapes of myself interviewing people and mostly I try to be better at directing the conversation.

— Maggie Haberman

There is nothing an interrogator could say to me that would be new; I've heard every variation.

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly…

— Alan Alda

I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially…

— Jean Piaget

When you ask someone a question, you trigger an unconscious flashback of their having been put on the spot earlier in life by a…

— Mark Goulston

Sometimes you don't always know the questions to ask or it's up to the other person to really know themselves and bring forth their…

— Gabby Windey

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

— Gail Sheehy

I'm constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don't know.

— Katherine Waterston

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question?…

— Lee Friedlander

Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?

— Neil Gaiman

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could…

— Sonia Sotomayor