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
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.
pit
I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
close harder people time
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
disliked fellow liked people
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
people
I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
good slow
I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
job secretary time tried
I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
behalf radio stations
I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
date women
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
sound
In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
closer
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
overlooked turns
The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
business
The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.