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We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
Ira Glass
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Ira Glass
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 3
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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 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.
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Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.
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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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You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
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