Terry Gross Quotes

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• Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.
• It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
• Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.
• I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.
• Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can…
• I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good…
• I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
• I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.
• I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
• I'm not the betting kind.
• Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
• Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
• What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.
• Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.
• I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I…
• I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought,…
• I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of…
• I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is,…
• If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can…
• The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know,…

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