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IRA HAYES I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly sta...
IRA SACHS It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fu...
IRA GLASS You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
IRA GLASS It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of ...
IRA GLASS Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me a...
IRA SACHS Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL...
IRA GLASS You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would def...
IRA GLASSER Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporti...
IRA GLASS I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
IRA GLASS I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I...
IRA SACHS I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are bette...
IRA GLASS 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ...
IRA GLASS Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unautho...
IRA WINKLER Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. I...
IRA SACHS I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northw...
IRA GLASS Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps ...
IRA GLASS The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it d...
IRA ERWIN I would say John Hancock is a definite [buyout] candidate.
IRA ZUCKERMAN There's going to be further consolidation in the insurance industry, and I would say John Hancock is...
IRA ZUCKERMAN