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I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

Ira Glass

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Ira Glass
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 3
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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 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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I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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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 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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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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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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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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You just have to fight your way through.
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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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Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
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Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.
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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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