Ira Glass Quotes: top 77 famous quotes about Ira Glass

Ira Glass Quotes & Sayings

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I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves. — Ira Glass

I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television. — Ira Glass

I seen a pig so big it'd block out the sun. — Ira Glass

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

I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway. — Ira Glass

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself. — Ira Glass

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say. — Ira Glass

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write. — Ira Glass

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

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

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

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges. — Ira Glass

I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did. — Ira Glass

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap. — Ira Glass

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

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day. — Ira Glass

I like excess. And giant M&M's. — Ira Glass

If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women. — Ira Glass

Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result. — Ira Glass

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

I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all. — Ira Glass

Great stories happen to those who can tell them — Ira Glass

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing. — Ira Glass

I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable. — Ira Glass

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college. — Ira Glass

perfectionism is the need to be right instead of being liked — Ira Glass

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. — Ira Glass

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy. — Ira Glass

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things. — Ira Glass

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great. — Ira Glass

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is. — Ira Glass

...uncorny, human sized drama — Ira Glass

Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now. — Ira Glass

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work. — Ira Glass

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

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side. — Ira Glass

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern. — Ira Glass

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

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

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

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture. — Ira Glass

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right. — Ira Glass

I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime. — Ira Glass

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

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do. — Ira Glass

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass

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

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness. — Ira Glass

I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble. — Ira Glass

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky. — Ira Glass

I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general. — Jenji Kohan

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun? — Ira Glass

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

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. — Ira Glass

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

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words. — Ira Glass

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself. — Ira Glass

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. — Ira Glass

You just have to fight your way through. — Ira Glass

Radio is for driving. — Ira Glass

The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out. — Ira Glass

I can only control what I can control. — Ira Glass

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews. — Ira Glass

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while. — Ira Glass

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

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. — Ira Glass

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

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise. — Ira Glass

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. — Ira Glass

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

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

I'm just not very funny. — Ira Glass

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence. — Ira Glass

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. — Ira Glass

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas. — Ira Glass

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful. — Ira Glass

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think. — Ira Glass