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
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think. — 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
A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is… — 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
The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast.… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My… — 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… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn't think it was cool to be working for NPR.… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. — Ira Glass Copy Share
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
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 of it. — Ira Glass Copy Share
I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is… — Ira Glass Copy Share
I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put… — Ira Glass Copy Share
