I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.
Ira GlassYou will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.
Ira GlassHonestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
Ira GlassBrad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.
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