Ira Glass Quotes
I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.
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I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.
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You've got to bring it. You've got to make sure people feel the energy you're trying to bring to the game.
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I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.
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I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
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Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
