Top 111 Quotes by Ira Glass

About Ira Glass

These are some quotes by American author Ira Glass Journalist, who was born on March 3, 1959.

I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

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I can only control what I can control.

I can only control what I can control.

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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.

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

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

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

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

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Radio is for driving.

Radio is for driving.

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Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.

Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.

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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.

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