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Ira Glass Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 3, 1959

Topics

Time People Think Self Feeling Just

I still don't consider myself a fashion girl.

Girl Myself Fashion Still Consider

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

John M. Grunsfeld

Age Space Growing Up Growing Young

I knew at five years old what I wanted to do for a living. I started reading newspapers and books out loud at a very young age. I was very focused on English and building my vocabulary.

Age Building Reading Young Living

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

Business Truth Cute Happy Doing You

I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.

Age School Independence Holidays

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Control Compromise You Acting More

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

Me Stand Up Believe Stand You Up

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

Life Myself Person Fortunate Led

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Family Tree Pet Three Dogs Up

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

Me World Finding Lost Want Kind

In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.

Lorene Scafaria

Great People World Ending Deep End

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

Home Child Me Better Go Try

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