Ira Glass Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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You are just your intelligence.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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The enthusiasm was based on pure love and love of what we were doing.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
