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Ira Glass
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 3
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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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I can only control what I can control.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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You just have to fight your way through.
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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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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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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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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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I don't think I've ever stolen anything.
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I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.
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Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.
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The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
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...uncorny, human sized drama
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Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.
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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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...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.
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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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Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
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