I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result. — 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
I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the… — 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
I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better… — 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
