3 Quotes & Sayings By Terry Gross

Terry Gross is the host of the radio show Fresh Air on NPR. She is also the author of five books, including The Terry Gross Show Book, at Work: How to Be an Adult in the World, and two nonfiction collections, When I'm Sixty-Four and The Wordy Shipmates. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Essays, The Paris Review, Esquire, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Playboy and many others.

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I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals. This may be especially true of writers and actors, many of whom first started to develop their observational skills as a result of being sidelined from typical childhood or adolescent activities because of an infirmity or a feeling of not fitting in. Or so I’ve come to believe from talking to so many writers and actors over the years. Terry Gross
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Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood. Terry Gross