But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time. Ira Glass More Quotes by Ira Glass More Quotes From Ira Glass You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. Ira Glass space long thinking You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be. Ira Glass fearless want heart I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so. Ira Glass wish running thinking You just have to fight your way through. Ira Glass fighting way Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas. Ira Glass ideas Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now. Ira Glass shows ideas I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put the baby into some lady's stomach, right? And, at some point, I learned how it really happened, and really that was the beginning of the end of my belief in God. Up until that point, it had always been a really weird act of intervention on God's part. Ira Glass littles baby way I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start. Ira Glass pleasure sports thinking Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. Ira Glass different purpose needs Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement. Ira Glass ignorant movement stories Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself. Ira Glass compelling like-you humans You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things. Ira Glass gold ifs trying 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. Ira Glass emotional character thinking I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong. Ira Glass stories people ideas I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say. Ira Glass worried persons conversation I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do. Ira Glass care voice sound I can only control what I can control. Ira Glass i-can I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt. Ira Glass brad mets thinking For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new. Ira Glass realizing stories way For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up. Ira Glass starting radio people
