Ira Glass Quotes
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I'm excited to join the StyleHaul community and bring new content to my fans.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.
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Life was about spending time together , about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life has to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family?
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I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
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I've never seen anyone say, 'Let's go get this person today; let's really ram it into him.' I've never seen it. If a Democrat or Republican commits some horrendous story, the story will run. The networks will cover it.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.