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Terry Gross Biography

Terry Gross (born February 14, 1951) is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by NPR. She has been in this position since 1975 and has conducted thousands of interviews over her 42 years at the job.

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There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.

Helping, Pay, People, Publication, Revenue, Work

I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that way.

Counts, Felt, League, People, Seen, Thinking

And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father's attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.

Sports, Father, Winning, Tough, Approval

An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.

Differences, Insulting, Kind, Mother, Self, Type

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.

Disappointment, Life, Meet, People, Trying, Watch

I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

Culture, Define, Discovery, Kids, Pop, Thinking

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

Having, Meaningful, Pay The Price, People, Time, Work

One of the things Donald Trump has criticized Hillary [Clinton] for is discrediting women who said they'd had affairs or been sexually harassed by her husband.

Affair, Clinton, Criticized, Husband, Sexually

I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like it was a video game or something. And then there's ads where, like, you know, the X to, like, close the ad screen is so kind of small that you can't find it and you have to actually go looking for it. And so I spend all my energy - instead of, like, absorbing what the advertiser wants to communicate to me, I spend my energy trying to figure out how to defeat the ad.

Communicate, Games, Know, Moving, Trying, Video

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

Found, Fear, Guard

When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger. " The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

Died, Kiss, Kissing, Like, Titles, Wife

It bothers me when people, say, you know, write for, you know, a web publication and get paid little or nothing or, you know, expecting to, like, read the best newspapers in the world and not pay a cent for it. Those newspapers need money in order to operate.

Order, People, Publication, Web, World, Writing

Based on the number that they found, The New York Times reported that Hillary [Clinton] had basically clinched the primary 'cause you added the superdelegates to the number of delegates you'd already gotten. But this was on the eve of the California and New Jersey primary.

Basically, California, Delegates, New York, Numbers

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

Class, Differences, Things, Think, Thinking

You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into my adult life, what am I not doing as a husband? What am I not doing as a father? The whole thing started unraveling with me that once I kept it up close to the chest, I could hold it all in, but once I started letting it out, it all started coming out.

Adults, Close, Father, Husband, Thing, Unraveling

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

Believe, Paid, People, Should

I'm wondering if the Roger Ailes scandal in which more than 20 women have come forward accusing him of sexual harassment is going to affect that narrative that's directed against Hillary [Clinton] and her husband pertaining to his infidelities.

Directed, Husband, Infidelity, Narrative, Pertaining, Wondering

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

Artist, Examine, Lives, Study, Use

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.

Invisible, Person, Pleasure, Pretty, Self

So if Hillary [Clinton] is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill Clinton, he'll be the first man and the first former president to return to the White House in the capacity of spouse.

Elected, Hillary, History, Men, Two, White

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