Ira Glass Quotes
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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College wasn't something I saw myself doing.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
