Terry Gross, 68, has been the host of the long-running, highly popular NPR interview program “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” for the past 42 years. Given her keen mind, boundless curiosity, affable and nonthreatening personality, diminutive stature, conversational style, and smooth voice, it’s no wonder Gross elicits from her interviewees information they might not reveal to anyone else in the media.
Quotes: “I’ve always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.” | “I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests’ lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I’m interviewing somebody, I’m getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.”
Sources: Wikipedia, BrainyQuote
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