Ira Glass Quotes

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

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• Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • People
  • Real
  • Free

• I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Career
  • Me
  • Stop

• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Father
  • Me
  • Memories

• I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • You
  • Makeup

• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Love
  • Shoes
  • Fetishist

• I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Think
  • Night

• The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Truth
  • English
  • Lies

• It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Job

• There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • World
  • America
  • Latin

• When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Growing

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Creativity
  • Only
  • Capitalist

• One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Great
  • Love
  • Story

• I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Escape

• I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Natural

• I'm definitely not the most graceful person out there. I've always been taught to play hard. I don't know how not to play hard. But for some guys it just looks easier. For me, it's not that natural.

  

  Chase Utley
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Looks

• Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Natural

• I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • Me
  • Lying

• I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Natural
  • Anything