Ira Glass
Ira Glass
Ira Jeffrey Glassis an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth3 March 1959
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
worried conversation persons
I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
i-can
I can only control what I can control.
stories radio different
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
stories way realizing
For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.
corny emotional people power realized smile top
I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.
works
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
york
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
mass tape
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
easily goes grand nature
I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
disliked fellow liked people
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
overlooked turns
The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
french hopelessly
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
money
When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
form good tweet
I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.