Ira Glass Quotes

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.

Ira Glass

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StoryYouPersonNewsRobotSound

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

Joe Miller

PowerPeopleConstitutionThinkStop

I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to.

Jo Cox

ActionImpossibleProblemsLongEgg

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

John Boorman

StoryThinkBodyLookPlayTry

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

John Gourley

BestRock StarYouNewDoneRock

There are too many guns.

Jeffrey Wright

GunsManyToo

The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g.

Rosamunde Pilcher

LifeMoneyStartYouSexBecome

The world is an increasingly dangerous, troubled place. There are nations that seem to be ungovernable. Nations where violence and religious combat are as common as the sunrise.

Mike Barnicle

SunriseWorldViolencePlaceSeem

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

Michael Morpurgo

MemoryMeStoryCreateMy OwnReal

Where I live in south London, it is a very Tory area, so a Labour vote is a wasted vote. My leanings would certainly be not to vote Tory.

Dominic Holland

LiveVoteLondonWhereWastedWould

I'm a red meat lover. I eat carbs. I love carbs.

Donovan Bailey

LoveRedEatMeatCarbsLover

When 'Entourage' came out, there wasn't Twitter or any of this access to celebrities. 'Entourage,' for me, let you inside of a world that nobody really knew about.

Constance Zimmer

MeWorldYouNobodyInsideOut

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

Claire McCaskill

TimeMeCountryRightSameUp

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