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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 Cavett

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
Greatly 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.
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Best Dumb Great Talent Unknown Wrong
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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Believe Confession Live Planet Reading Reminder Space
I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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Block Easy Hard Myself Reason Writing
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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Commercial Exposure Judge Rare Screen
I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work
It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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Artificial Function Human Situation Tribute
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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Amount Limitation Pressure Reading Subject Wrong
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Disturb Label Lose Myself Problem Vulnerable
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Greatness List Name
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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Brain Heart Life Music Straight

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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