Ira Glass Quotes
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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You put high heels on and you change.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
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I wanted to be baptized as an adult, confirming my faith and my beliefs. It was also a way for me to consciously thank God and Jesus for everything in my life.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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I want to get better every year.
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
