Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
DICK CAVETTRadio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
DICK CAVETTI don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
DICK CAVETTJapanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
DICK CAVETTI’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
DICK CAVETTThere are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
DICK CAVETTThere’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
DICK CAVETTI’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
DICK CAVETTI hate Danny Kaye movies.
DICK CAVETTI have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
DICK CAVETTGreatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
DICK CAVETTEvery writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
DICK CAVETTNobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
DICK CAVETTShow people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
DICK CAVETTThe information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
DICK CAVETTCan you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
DICK CAVETTIt’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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