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Ira Glass quotes: I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves. I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
Ira Glass quotes: I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television. I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
Ira Glass quotes: I seen a pig so big it'd block out the sun. I seen a pig so big it'd block out the sun.
Ira Glass quotes: But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time. But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
Ira Glass quotes: I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway. I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
Ira Glass quotes: You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself. You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
Ira Glass quotes: I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say. I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
Ira Glass quotes: I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write. I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
Ira Glass quotes: In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it. In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
Ira Glass quotes: It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
Ira Glass quotes: Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement. Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
Ira Glass quotes: In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges. In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
Ira Glass quotes: I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did. I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
Ira Glass quotes: Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap. Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
Ira Glass quotes: Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best. Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
Ira Glass quotes: I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day. I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
Ira Glass quotes: I like excess. And giant M&M's. I like excess. And giant M&M's.
Ira Glass quotes: Great stories happen to those who can tell them Great stories happen to those who can tell them
Ira Glass quotes: It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that. It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.
Ira Glass quotes: Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result. Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass quotes: We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing. We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
Ira Glass quotes: I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable. I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
Ira Glass quotes: I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college. I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
Ira Glass quotes: I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful. I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
Ira Glass quotes: perfectionism is the need to be right instead of being liked perfectionism is the need to be right instead of being liked
Ira Glass quotes: I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
Ira Glass quotes: In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy. In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
Ira Glass quotes: You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things. You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
Ira Glass quotes: You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great. You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.
Ira Glass quotes: I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is. I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
Ira Glass quotes: ...uncorny, human sized drama ...uncorny, human sized drama
Ira Glass quotes: Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
Ira Glass quotes: The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work. The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
Ira Glass quotes: Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio. Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
Ira Glass quotes: The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side. The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
Ira Glass quotes: I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern. I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
Ira Glass quotes: You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be. You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.
Ira Glass quotes: There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person. There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
Ira Glass quotes: Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me. Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.
Ira Glass quotes: Many times I see you as a portrait of torture. Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
Ira Glass quotes: Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right. Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.
Ira Glass quotes: I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime. I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
Ira Glass quotes: Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care. Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
Ira Glass quotes: I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do. I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
Ira Glass quotes: Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Ira Glass quotes: When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
Ira Glass quotes: I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong. I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
Ira Glass quotes: I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness. I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
Ira Glass quotes: I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble. I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.
Ira Glass quotes: If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky. If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.
Ira Glass quotes: Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun? Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
Ira Glass quotes: If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story. If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.
Ira Glass quotes: We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews. We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
Ira Glass quotes: It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud. It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
Ira Glass quotes: Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words. Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
Ira Glass quotes: Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself. Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.
Ira Glass quotes: Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
Ira Glass quotes: You just have to fight your way through. You just have to fight your way through.
Ira Glass quotes: Radio is for driving. Radio is for driving.
Ira Glass quotes: The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out. The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
Ira Glass quotes: If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women. If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass quotes: I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while. I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.
Ira Glass quotes: I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure. I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
Ira Glass quotes: You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
Ira Glass quotes: I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs. I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
Ira Glass quotes: When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise. When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
Ira Glass quotes: I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
Ira Glass quotes: I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium. I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
Ira Glass quotes: I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller. I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
Ira Glass quotes: I'm just not very funny. I'm just not very funny.
Ira Glass quotes: In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence. In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
Ira Glass quotes: But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Ira Glass quotes: I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all. I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
Ira Glass quotes: Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas. Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.
Ira Glass quotes: Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think. Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
Ira Glass quotes: I can only control what I can control. I can only control what I can control.

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