Ira Glass Quotes
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
Ira Glass
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
Garry Trudeau
Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
Irvine Welsh
I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
Vicki Lawrence
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Laura Esquivel
I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
Maika Monroe
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
Ted Cruz
Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
Elizabeth Janeway
All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
Isaac Hayes
They'll all pee blue for one week to ten days, for about the duration of the show. The first opening I've enjoyed!
Jean Tinguely
I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.
Drew Carey
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
Ira Glass
