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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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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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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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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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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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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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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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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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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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.
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I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.
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Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
