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Terry Gross [1951-0] American

Rank: 103
Journalist, Co-producer

Terry Gross is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview format radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by NPR.

Fear, Famous, Respect, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.	Respect	101
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.	Truth	102
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.		103
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.		104
Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.	Fear	105
It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.	Fear	106
I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.		107
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.		108
The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.	Famous	109
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.		110
I'm not the betting kind.		111
What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.		112
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.		113
I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.		114
Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.		115
I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.		116
I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that way.		117
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.		118
Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.		119
Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.		120

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