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 started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn't think it was cool to be working for NPR. I didn't need anything to be cool. I just wanted something to do that would be interesting. It was fun. I didn't think of it as anything else but fun.

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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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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

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

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

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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

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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.

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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If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Ira Glass

You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.

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