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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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"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
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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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"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
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"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."
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"The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere."
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"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"
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"During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected."
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"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
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"I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for 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
"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
"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
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
Space
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
Question
"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"
Fun
"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
"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
Purpose
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