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Ira Glass Biography

Ira Jeffrey Glass (/ˈaɪrə/; born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life.

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For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

People, Radio, Starting, Station, Talk

I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua.

Chihuahua, Giant, Giants, Think, Thinking

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

Down, Faces, Graduation, Inspirational, Questions, Stress

I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.

Feels, Funny, Havens, Movies, Seen, Want

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

Portrait, Portraits, See, Times, Torture

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Empathy, Joy, Noticing, World

Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.

Honestly, Movies, See

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

Conversation, Person, Persons, Pretty, Say, Worried

I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.

Heart, Interesting, Like, Taste, Tell, Years

I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

Ideas, People, Stories, Wrongness, Fact

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

Different, Radio, Stories, Story, Structuring

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea. '

Dust, Fairy, Fall, Jobs, Looking, Spend

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

Admitting, Radio, Speak, Untruths

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.

Aerodynamics, Interesting, Law, Takes, Writing, Written

What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Ambition, Couple, Make, Taste, Thing, Years

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

Know, Stuff, Trying, Want

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

Carver, Fun, Loud, Thing

I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.

Brad, Met, Mets, Person, Think, Thinking

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

Happen, Learn, Realizing, Stories, Things, Way

I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

Day, Jon, Know How, Knows, News, Stewart

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