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Jim Broderick, a retired flavorist, told me that he once interviewed for a job at the New York office of Firmenich, a European flavor-and-fragrance house: "When I asked them 'What's my job?' it was 'You take the flavors that we make over there and re-create them over here,' and I said, 'Well, can I see the formulas?' And they said no".
Indeed, the man who Bono called the "Elvis of Academia" was once interviewed for Radio Free Los Angeles by Tom Morello, the Harvard-educated guitarist for the now defunct agitprop rock band Rage Against the Machine, whose album "Evil Empire," which was critical of U.S. policy, hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
I once interviewed for a job with a documentary producer who made boring if well-meaning films for public TV.
Fun fact: I once interviewed for an internship there.
As an illustration that this is the normal state of the world: I was once interviewed for a job as a union organizer.
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(In the interests of transparency, let me add that Greenberg once interviewed me for Forbes, and he uses some of those quotations in the book).
A little-known quote from Martin Amis — delivered to the New Yorker editor Susan Morrison, who once interviewed him for Rolling Stone: "The death of your parents is the ordinary tragedy.
When Izzard was a student at Sheffield, he had once interviewed Palin for the university paper; now he and Palin were standing in the corridor talking about how you handle hecklers.
I once interviewed Coe for the FT and remember him saying that the most exciting thing about writing the book was "finding an identity" for himself "as a provincial writer".
I once interviewed Lasorda for a television program about the best sports films, and when I asked him about Major League, he said he didn't like it because of all the swearing.
In the meantime, here's a reminder that I once interviewed Nye for a full minute.
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