I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.

— Ira Glass

Ira Glass Quotes

I wish that someone had said to me that it’s normal to feel lost for a little while.

— Ira Glass

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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Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn’t fun?

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Fun

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

— Ira Glass

I can only control what I can control.

— Ira Glass

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don’t just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you’re just like, ‘This is the part of the day when I’m looking for an idea.’

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Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

— Ira Glass
About Stories

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

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We’re Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

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One reason I do the live shows – and the monthly speeches at public radio stations – is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It’s so easy to forget that.

— Ira Glass

If you’re not failing all the time, you’re not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

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You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don’t know what’s going to be great.

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Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

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For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It’s a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

— Ira Glass
About Stories

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.

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It’s gonna take a while. It’s normal to take a while. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

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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. Pedophilia is a pleasure a person should have guilt about. Not chocolate.

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Force yourself through the work, force the skills to comes; that’s the hardest phase; I feel like your problem is that you’re trying to judge all things in abstract before you do them. That is your tragic mistake.

— Ira Glass
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