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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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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When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.
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The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.
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Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.
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If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.
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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.
