Ira Glass Quotes

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Ira Glass

• Dance
• Story
• Movement

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• My first vocation was dance.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Dance
  • First
  • Vocation

• Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Dance

• I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Science
  • Like
  • Imagination

• All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • Story
  • Problems

• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Story
  • Problems

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Team
  • Passionate
  • England

• The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Care
  • Story

• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Relationship
  • Dance
  • Learn

• In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • American
  • Education
  • Recess

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Read
  • Modern
  • Novels

• I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Poverty
  • Development
  • Bullish

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.

  

  Becky G
  • Picture
  • Colors
  • Musically

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• I had trained a bit in Bharatanatyam in the past but did not learn in depth. The same goes with jazz, western, and cinematic dance, as I was quite laid back with the training.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Past
  • Dance
  • Training

• So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'

  

  Raekwon
  • Real
  • Help
  • Attention

• I grew up in San Fransisco in a very liberal community. My environment was very, very open and very liberal.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Up
  • Community
  • Environment

• Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Past

• Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Dance
  • Story
  • Movement