Elvis Duran Quotes

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

I don't like to rush things.

I'm so used to doing stuff, as you can imagine, fast and on the go, and just calming down, being patient for me is something I have yet to get used to.

Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored.

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two

The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.