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Ira Jeffrey Glass is an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life.

✵ 3. March 1959
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Famous Ira Glass Quotes

“You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.”

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“Great stories happen to those who can tell them”

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“Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.”

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"Ira Glass on Storytelling, part 2" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW6x7lOIsPE
This American Life

“Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.”

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"Pandora's Box", This American Life, television season 1, installment 6, 26 April 2007.
This American Life

“What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me... is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.
But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story.
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

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The Taste Gap: Ira Glass on the Secret of Creative Success, Animated in Living Typography http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/ira-glass-success-daniel-sax/ at brainpickings.org <br class="br">This American Life

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