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Radio Quotes by Ira Glass
- I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts…
- I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
- You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
- But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
- But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
- Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
- One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the…
- 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…
- 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…
- I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts…
- Radio is for driving.
- There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in…
- Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
- In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
- Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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