190 Quotes by ira glass

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.