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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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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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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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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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
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I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?
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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
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The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
