Ira Glass Quotes

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.

You 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.

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

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

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.

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.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

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

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.

You just have to fight your way through.