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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

Dick Cavett

I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
DICK CAVETT

Finding Music Myself Sacred
A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
DICK CAVETT

Big Book Mistake Reading Start Yourself
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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Body Comedy Comic Myself
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
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 don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Feeling Himself Man Old Wrong Young
In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Relative Remember Thinking Youth
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Amazing Capacity Greatness Man
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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Joke Myself Short Show Subject
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
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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Article Channel Choice Kind Old Possible
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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Damage Goodness Talk Time

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

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