Quotes by Ira Glass

About Ira Glass:

Ira Jeffrey Glass is an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

Ira Glass

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful...

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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even...

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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

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Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

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I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

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Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

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I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

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Author Bio

  • NameIra Glass
  • DescriptionAmerican radio personality
  • BornMarch 3, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionRadio Producer; Radio Host
  • AwardsGeorge Polk Award