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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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"In life; not all questions require gentle answers, some just want you to be so stupid to answer in a stupid way."
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"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
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"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"
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"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."
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"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."
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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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"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
"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
Purpose
"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
"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
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
Space
"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."
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"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"
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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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"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."
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