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Ira Glass

American

March 3, 1959

Journalist

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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.

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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

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I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

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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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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

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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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Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.

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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.

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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

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When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.

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