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
writing law aerodynamics
It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...
ambition gaps volume
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
gay beard remember
I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to Ira Glass? Obviously, he's gay."
mean air people
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
ideas shows
Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
funny-graduation wish littles
I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.
thinking
I don't think I've ever stolen anything.
issues interesting radio
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
college class fiction
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
news knows know-how
I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
thinking
I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.
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.