Ira Glass Quotes

• Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

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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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• Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

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• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I’m just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

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  Tags in People, Effect, Something

• We’re Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

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  Tags in Distinct

• One reason I do the live shows – and the monthly speeches at public radio stations – is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It’s so easy to forget that.

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• Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn’t fun?

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• It’s not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he’s fun to read out loud.

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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 of it.

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  Tags in People, Theoretical, Evidence

• 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 for a lot.

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  Tags in Good, Emotional, Question

• I suppose I shouldn’t go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

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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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• But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you’re being sincere all the time.

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  Tags in People, Public, Problems

Ira Glass (13)

Birth:	3rd March, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anchor, Producer, Radio Personality

About

Ira Jeffrey Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an American public radio personality, film producer and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life. He studied at Northwestern University and graduated from Brown University in 1982. He has worked in public radio for some 30 years. He was a reporter and host on several NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. He produced several films include: Freezing People Is Easy, Sleepwalk with Me, and Don't Think Twice.

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