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Ira Glass Quotes

A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.

Ira Glass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Preparation Me Think Thought Doing

I want to put something on the screen that audiences have never seen black actors do before, roles that will widen views of who African-Americans are.

Joe Morton

Black Want Will Never Something Who

When I was young, they said in the future that you'd just take a pill and never have to eat. That will never happen.

Joel Robuchon

Future You Said Young Will Never

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

Mayer Hawthorne

Science School High School Now High

The thing I really love about 'Saturday Night Fever' is that the movie is a gritty drama. Most people just remember the amazing, whimsical fantasy dance scenes, but then, when you watch it again, it's raw.

Max Joseph

Love Dance People Amazing Night You

I don't like the idea of seeing a movie and it feels comfortable because you've heard it before.

Jeff Baena

You Seeing Comfortable Because Idea

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Detail Remember Important I Remember

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

Siri Hustvedt

Work Time Art Late Museum First

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

Rita Dove

Equality Name Never Divided Should

The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - imagined it could impose a government on that country that would provide a buffer against China and stop the supposedly rolling dominos of Communism.

Jay Parini

Best Government Communism Stop China

My wife hates the beard. When we dated, I would grow it out during duck season. She said she could handle anything for three months - but now I have it all the time.

Jase Robertson

Time Wife Beard Grow Duck Three

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

Dick Dale

Humor Healing Jokes Greatest Because

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

Boyle Roche

Sky Will Smell Rat Air See