Ira Glass

I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.

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I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at…

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I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available…

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I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio…

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Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is…

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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I…

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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

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I'm a cliche.

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I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from…

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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…

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I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My…

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I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that…

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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very…

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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.

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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I…

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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

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At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally…

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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's…

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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over…

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It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning…

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