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
trying want stuff
You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.
ideas
Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.
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.
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Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.
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.
front natural performing talk tendency
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
telling
Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
broadcast generally incredibly
Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
people shocked
I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
adequate best editing special
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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.
bad sound
I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.