Ira Glass Quotes
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Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
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Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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I can only control what I can control.
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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I'm just not very funny.
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I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
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I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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I'm a cliche.