Ira Glass Quotes
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
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.
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.
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 to be.
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.
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.
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.
I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.
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.
I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
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.
Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.
I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.
The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.
Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.
Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.