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It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.Ira Glass
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...uncorny, human sized dramaIra Glass
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.Ira Glass
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Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.Ira Glass
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I started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn't think it was cool to be working for NPR. I didn't need anything to be cool. I just wanted something to do that would be interesting. It was fun. I didn't think of it as anything else but fun.Ira Glass
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.Ira Glass
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.Ira Glass
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I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.Ira Glass