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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.

Ira Glass

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Ira Glass
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 3
Actor
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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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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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You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.
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If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.
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I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.
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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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The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.
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