I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

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The guy that is telling you to bring your tithe so that God will bless you is telling you lies.

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The Naysayers are your biggest motivation.

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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

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Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

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She's been on more laps than a napkin.

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An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

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The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

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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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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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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

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I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

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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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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

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If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

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I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

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I don't 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.

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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

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I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

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Great Great Thing Interested Interview

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I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

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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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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

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Both Breakfast Day Desk

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I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

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392 Radio personality Quotes

I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

Ira Glass

The guy that is telling you to bring your tithe so that God will bless you is telling you lies.

Daddy Freeze

The Naysayers are your biggest motivation.

Toke Makinwa

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Ira Glass

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

Walter Winchell

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

Walter Winchell

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Walter Winchell

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

Walter Winchell

She's been on more laps than a napkin.

Walter Winchell

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Walter Winchell

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

Walter Winchell

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

Walter Winchell

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Ira Glass

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Ira Glass

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

Ira Glass

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.

Ira Glass

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Ira Glass

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

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

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.

Ira Glass

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.

Ira Glass

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

Ira Glass

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

Ira Glass

I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

Ira Glass

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

Ira Glass

I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

Ira Glass

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Ira Glass

I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

Ira Glass

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

Ira Glass

I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

Ira Glass

I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

Ira Glass

Ira Glass

I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

Ira Glass

I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

Ira Glass