Ira Glass Quotes
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
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One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.
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[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
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All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.
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A montage is incredibly challenging. When I can, I'd like to know what the music is going to be ahead of time because that will affect the beat, the pace of the montage.
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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
