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I can only control what I can control.
Ira Glass
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Ira Glass
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 3
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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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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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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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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'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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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.
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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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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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Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
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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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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 didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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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 know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.
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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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I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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You just have to fight your way through.
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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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