Ira Glass Quotes

I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.

I'm syndicated on the radio - my show is called 'The Sweat Hotel.'

People are so nice, you know. It's such a credit to Howard Stern - the audience base that he created is such a special thing. It took him a long time to create this family of fans, and I was lucky to be a part of that for a while.

I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

It's always pretty amazing to hear your own voice on the radio.

I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That, too, is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on.

I was a radio jockey after graduation. I was 22, the youngest RJ in Delhi at that time.

You probably know me as a producer for 'This American Life', a top podcast in iTunes.

On CBC Radio, the Canadian national radio, there's a show called 'WireTap.' The host is Jonathan Goldstein. It's amazing.

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.

To be on 'Coast to Coast,' you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.

The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

I'm so excited. I love radio and being on the new Mix 102.9.

Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.

I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

It's hard sometimes, especially with a book like 'Scorch Trials,' to truly adapt to the way the book is because so many of the scenes that take place in the book are really graphed and painted for the imagination. Trying to bring that to life is a really big task.

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.