The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy. — 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
Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words. — 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
I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel… — 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
You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't… — 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
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
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
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
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
The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole… — 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'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
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
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you… — 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
