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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
"Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks."
"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
Explore more quotes by Ira Glass
"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."
"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."
"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
"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."
"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
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