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"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
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"Reasons... questions... what they have in common?- All get finded in the hard way."
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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
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"Never ask a bore a question."
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"I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions."
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"Questions... I question that... and than... soona I am going to question and my existence."
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"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
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"But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking."
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"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
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"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"
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"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
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"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."
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"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
"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
"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
Money
"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
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
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"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
"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
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