Quotes by Ira Glass

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and...

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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio...

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Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one...

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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in...

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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent...

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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question,...

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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend...

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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word...

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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving...

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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently...

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