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Dick Cavett

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.
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Better Image Listening Medium Mindset Television Yourself
Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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Afraid Mindset Myself People Police Sex Violence
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Comic Court Early Known Rank Rough Survive
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People
Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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Honesty Myself Time Togetherness
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Acceptance Financial People Profit Yourself
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Day Device Myself Sick
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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Authority Depression Feeling Horrible
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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Brilliant Comedy Foot Myself Pain Time

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