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 you're not mindful about sugar, high sugar intake is just the worst thing for you, but I'm, like, everything in moderation, and that's how I approach it.
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I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?
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A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.
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As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.
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My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
