I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties.… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
