Ira Glass Quotes
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.
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Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.
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Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.
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Kelly Preston is a remarkable human being and a great dramatic actress. It was a privilege as a director to tap into this part of her. Rarely do I make a kind of spiritual connection with my cast. Kelly was a wonderful exception. She is truly very special and I adore her.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
