But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
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 GlassI don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.
Ira GlassIt's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.
Ira Glass