90 Quotes by Terry Gross

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.