Terry Gross

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it. ↗

— Terry Gross

#disappointment #get #hide #i #i am

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth. ↗

— Terry Gross

#i #politician #revise #truth #want

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things. ↗

— Terry Gross

#favorite things #i #i love #love #love songs

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it. ↗

— Terry Gross

#know #privacy #respect #right #someone

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound. ↗

— Terry Gross

#confident #conveyed #form #how #i

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person. ↗

— Terry Gross

#get #great #great pleasure #i #invisible

I'm not the betting kind. ↗

— Terry Gross

#i #kind

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions. ↗

— Terry Gross

#always #asking #asking questions #been #confused

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood. ↗

— Terry Gross

#being misunderstood #fear #just #misunderstood #sometimes

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human. ↗

— Terry Gross

#case #examine #human #kind #like