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" I'm a cliche. "
Ira Glass
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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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" It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks. "
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" I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites. "
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" The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations. "
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" I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do. "
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" But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time. "
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" My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school. "
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School
" I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college. "
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College
" 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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Know
Saying
" I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck. "
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Enough
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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. "
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Most
" 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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You
Want
" I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble. "
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Own
Bubble
Live
" In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy. "
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Only
Little
Daily
" Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think. "
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Twitter
Think
" I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish. "
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" Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations. "
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People
" 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. "
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" It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud. "
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Fun
Loud
" You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out. "
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" I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense. "
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" I like excess. And giant M&M's. "
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" 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. "
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" If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women. "
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" In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of 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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