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Ira Glass Quotes

Ira Glass quotes

American Journalist March 3, 1959

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Ira Glass quote: "It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond..."
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud. Ira Glass
Ira Glass quote: "But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is..."
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time. Ira Glass
Ira Glass quote: "We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct..."
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews. 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 for a lot. Ira Glass
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. Ira Glass
Ira Glass quote: "You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work..."
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. Ira Glass
It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will... Ira Glass
Ira Glass quote: "But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio..."
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. Ira Glass
Ira Glass quote: "Many times I see you as a portrait of torture."
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture. Ira Glass
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing. Ira Glass
Ira Glass quote: "You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone..."
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. Ira Glass
Ira Glass quote: "Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre..."
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. Ira Glass
Ira Glass quote: "...uncorny, human sized drama"
...uncorny, human sized drama Ira Glass
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. Ira Glass
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. Ira Glass

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