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It's hard to make something that's interesting. it's really, really hard. it's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. the natural state of all writing is mediocrity... so what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.
-Ira Glass
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It's Hard To Make Something That's Interesting.

Ira Glass
It's hard to make something that's interesting. it's really, really hard. it's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. the natural state of all writing is mediocrity... so what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.
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