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.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
Ozzie Smith
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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.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
J. C. Chandor
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
Lance Ito
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
Samantha Bond
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
Bebe Rexha
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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.
Faith Ford
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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.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
Yves Behar
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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.
Larry Drake
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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.
T Bone Burnett
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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.
Halle Berry
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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.
Lars von Trier
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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.
Walt Mossberg
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr
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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.'
Mara Wilson
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I wanted to be a professional drummer.
Walter Payton
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Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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The one thing that I'm always gonna promote is, 'Don't look at a fellow black man as an enemy.' And it's hard. It's really hard, though, when you're coming up. It's something that you have to teach yourself and learn.
Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
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Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
Ira Glass