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
close harder people time
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
pit
I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
easily goes grand nature
I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
both employ tricks
I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
mass tape
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
bad sound
I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
york
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
works
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.
adequate best editing special
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.
people shocked
I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
broadcast generally incredibly
Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
telling
Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
absolutely change forced forces generally people picture realize
People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
attention banal creates facts happen learned matter move nerd plot rolling simply wonder
One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.