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Terry Gross quotes

American Journalist

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Terry Gross quote: "Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited..."
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it. Terry Gross
Terry Gross quote: "I love songs. Songs are my favorite things."
I love songs. Songs are my favorite things. Terry Gross
I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it. Terry Gross
I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions. Terry Gross
I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound. Terry Gross
Terry Gross quote: "Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to..."
Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time. Terry Gross
The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are. Terry Gross
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. Terry Gross
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person. Terry Gross
Terry Gross quote: "Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to..."
Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human. Terry Gross
I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them. Terry Gross
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is. Terry Gross
Terry Gross quote: "I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it."
I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it. Terry Gross
Terry Gross quote: "I'm not the betting kind."
I'm not the betting kind. Terry Gross
Terry Gross quote: "Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about..."
Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist. Terry Gross

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