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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I can only control what I can control.

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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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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.

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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

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I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

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I like excess. And giant M&M's.

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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

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I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.

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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

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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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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's ...

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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