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" If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story. "
Ira Glass
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" I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves. "
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" Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it. "
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" Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would. "
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" I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.' "
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" I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world. "
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" I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time. "
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" We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews. "
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" I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal. "
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" 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. "
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" I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny. "
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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. "
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" 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is. "
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" The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast? "
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" I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble. "
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" Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me. "
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" Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. "
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" I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal. "
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" 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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" I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness. "
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" I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air. "
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" 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. "
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