I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
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
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
It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real… — 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
If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
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
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
