- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
- Bull
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
- Grabbing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
- Interviewer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.
- Ice Cream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020