Ira Glass

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

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Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

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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 wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.

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Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.

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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978,…

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I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti…

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Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can…

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I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this…

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I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I…

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I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will…

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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…

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I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was…

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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how…

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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast.…

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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating…

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I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at…

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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it…

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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

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I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

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You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.

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I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

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The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

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Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

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Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

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I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

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