"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."

Time, People, Being, Problems

1

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."

Exlpore more Time quotes

"When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles."

Robyn Hitchcock, English Musician

Time, Mind, Spring

"A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon."

Gregory Nunn, American Athlete

Time, Liberal, Man, Right

"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Time, Travel, Space

"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."

Kevin J. Anderson, American Writer

Time, Books

"Prejudices save time."

Robert Byrne, American Celebrity

Time,

"Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy."

Mark Russell, American Writer

Time, Work, Quality

"Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds."

Stevie Ray Vaughan, American Musician

Time, Right

"Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job."

Stanley Kubrick, American Director

Time, Chance, Job, Risk

"You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time."

David O. Selznick, American Producer

Time, Change

"Time is always standing still, we are only changing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Change, Life

Explore more quotes by Ira Glass

"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."

Time, People, Being, Problems

"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."

Purpose, Driving, Fiction, Needs

"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."

Space, Word

"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"

Fun,

"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."

People, Forget, Public, Reason

"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."

People, Day

"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."

Love, Fun

"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."

Money, Family

"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."

Fun, Funny, People, Effect, Saying

"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."

Fiction, Question