Ira Glass Quotes

One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.

Ira Glass

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Moving ForwardMovingControlForward

Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

Jesse L. Martin

TodaySadResponsibilityMoneyNoble

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Andy Warhol

SeeingRunBeliefWithoutRepeat

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

Tony Dorsett

LifeYourselfMindWorldYouWay

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

DeForest Kelley

ChildhoodAverageWellIndividuals

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

Chevy Chase

YouChaseChevy

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

Conrad Black

MistakeCitizenshipTryNeverMay

I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84.

Colin Firth

FirstThroughFranceItalyMovie

A good script makes our job a lot easier.

Clark Duke

GoodJobEasierOurScriptMakes

We abstained from having sex until we got married.

Ali Landry

SexGotMarriedHavingUntil

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

William S. Burroughs

DoneAnythingOtherMeans

There was a time when we had a nice little run: Eve, Lil' Kim, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Remy Ma, Da Brat - it goes on. But what I noticed is that a lot of talented females in hip-hop came out of a male camp.

Pepa

TimeQueenNiceHillRunHip-Hop

No amount of sanctioning will persuade North Korea to give up nuclear weapons, nor will China step up and solve the problem for us.

Richard N. Haass

StepProblemWillNuclear WeaponsUp

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