Ira Glass quotes - page 2

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)

I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one.

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I dont 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.

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Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

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For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

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I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

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I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

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I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

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The Cruise is one of my favorite films and very close to the spirit of This American Life: It's funny and moving and surprising and just beautiful to look at–black and white, shot on the cheap with all natural light on digital video, incredibly.

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'I don't know, it seems weird to be making this much money and asking people to donate money,' It seemed unseemly. So I said, 'I think that I should just make less.' I just thought it ... seemed fair. It seemed like I should make what you make if you're like, a high school principal or something. Not even the principal, but the assistant principal.

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The thing that happens to me is that if it's going well, and the person is really talking from the heart about a thing that means something to them. And I'm talking back to them, and we're understanding each other, and like I start to feel really close to them. I know that as like a professional journalist, it's not like the right thing to say, to say this, but I start to really love them. Like it has the intimacy of any like actual intimate conversation with somebody who I feel super close to. (Ira Glass)

I called Ira up and I said, 'You're gonna be a cult hero eventually'-and I think it's coming true. The other thing I said to him was, 'It's gonna devour you.'

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

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