Best Ira Glass Quotes
- Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. Driving
- One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the… Audience
- You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great. Bunch
- Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas. From
- It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to… Ambition
- Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative… All
- ...uncorny, human sized drama Drama
- Many times I see you as a portrait of torture. Inspirational
- ...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers… All
- It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written… Act
- You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it… Fearless
- Great stories happen to those who can tell them. Great
- It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that. Fight
- I can only control what I can control. Control
- I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to… Baltimore
- In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy. Check
- It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time… Beginning
- I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves. Amuse
- I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say. Always Worried
- I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness. Close
- When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. Body
- I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble. Bubble
- I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job… All
- I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all. All
- In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges. All