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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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 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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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.
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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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I usually end up falling for one of my really good guy friends because I know everything about them, and you fall in love with their personalities, and it makes them become attractive to you in your eyes.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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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.
