Ira Glass
Ira Glass
Ira Jeffrey Glassis an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth3 March 1959
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
i-can
I can only control what I can control.
voice care sound
I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
like-you compelling humans
Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.
fun
Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.
worried conversation persons
I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
ideas people stories
I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
purpose fiction radio
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
book two my-family
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
fun loud carver
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
gold trying ifs
You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
heart fearless want
You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.
thinking space long
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.
fighting way
You just have to fight your way through.