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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. "
Ira Glass
Know
Show
Way
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" I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves. "
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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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" 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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" 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'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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" I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful. "
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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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" 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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Situation
" I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say. "
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" When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking. "
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Opinions
You
" I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway. "
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Time
New York
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" 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. "
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" When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise. "
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Empathy
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" When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. "
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College
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" I started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn't think it was cool to be working for NPR. I didn't need anything to be cool. I just wanted something to do that would be interesting. It was fun. I didn't think of it as anything else but fun. "
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" Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market. "
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