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Ira Glass
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 3
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The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.
Ira Glass
The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
Ira Glass
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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
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.
Ira Glass
I can only control what I can control.
Ira Glass
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
Ira Glass
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
Ira Glass
You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
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
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
Ira Glass
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
Ira Glass
I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.
Ira Glass
I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.
Ira Glass
I don't think I've ever stolen anything.
Ira Glass
If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.
Ira Glass
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.
Ira Glass
Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.
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.
Ira Glass
Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.
Ira Glass