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I like excess. And giant M&M's.

Author: Ira Glass - American Journalist
  Like , Excess , Giant


I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.

Author: Ira Glass - American Journalist
  Feel , Game , Understand , Enough


I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.

Author: Ira Glass - American Journalist
  Animal , Myself , Never , Good


One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.

Author: Ira Glass - American Journalist
  You , Control , Moving , Moving Forward


There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

Author: Ira Glass - American Journalist
  You , Feel , Feeling , Talking


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.

Author: Ira Glass - American Journalist
  Me , People , Eating , Believe


Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

Author: Ira Glass - American Journalist
  Me , Journalism , Seem , Primitive


The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

Author: Ira Glass - American Journalist
  You , Yourself , People , Thinking


I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

Author: Ira Glass - American Journalist
  You , Moment , Moments , Deep


'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.

Author: Ira Glass - American Journalist
  You , Me , Time , Good


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