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. (Ira Glass)

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

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

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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.

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

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

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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

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

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

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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)

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

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

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

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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

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

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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.

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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

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Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

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Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be. (Ira Glass)

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

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I can only control what I can control.

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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

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

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Occupation: American Journalist
Born: March 3, 1959
Quotes count: 37
Wikipedia: Ira Glass

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