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Ira Glass Quotes

American - Journalist | March 3, 1959 -

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

Story You Person News Robot Sound

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

I Am Person Say Always Pretty About

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Voice Care Take Care Bad Sound Take

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Story You Want Tell Somebody Most

I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

Life Time Feel Situation I Can Kind

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

Time People Think Self Feeling Just

I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

Good Think Connection I Can Way Got

I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

Life Work Story Think Name American

Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

Listening Moving Book Forward Story

I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

People Television Watch Been Shocked

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.

Feel Television Done Talk Radio

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.'

Time Interesting Watch Got Oh Then

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