Ira Glass Quotes
Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
Quotes to Explore
-
It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
-
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
-
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
-
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
-
'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
-
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
-
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
-
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
-
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
-
I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
-
I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
-
You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
-
I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
-
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
-
I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
-
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
-
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
-
I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
-
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
-
I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
-
I'm not one of these actors who's out of touch with reality, put it that way.
-
For me to train and get ready for racing, I can't just sit in the gym all the time and that's the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that's what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind.
-
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
-
Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
