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

Ira Glass

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Ira Glass
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 3
Actor
Film Producer
Radio Personality
Radio Producer
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Baltimore
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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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Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
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I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
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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 didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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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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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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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'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
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...uncorny, human sized drama
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I don't think I've ever stolen anything.
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You just have to fight your way through.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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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.
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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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We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
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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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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 entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.
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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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