Ira Glass Quotes
I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.
Quotes to Explore
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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The world needs some help.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
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Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.
Colson Whitehead -
I don't think there's anything wrong with a little sweat. I'm always moving, so it's normal for me, and it actually makes my curly hair better because it gives it a bit more texture and volume.
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I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.
