I stumbled across this video of David Letterman interviewing Ms. Fey on his Late Show.
Since I, unfortunately, would not consider myself a genius — though Del Close's memorable mentality that if we treat one another like we are poets and geniuses, then we will have a higher chance of becoming them, would have me thinking otherwise — I can only give an opinion. And, I would say yes, because no matter the sort of person you are, there's no way you can just turn yourself off. You may be able to fake it for a while, but eventually it wears on you and eventually the facade has to come down. Things can't just stop because of an outside force, and they won't because when there is something so great and forward thinking, it has no choice but to move in that direction.
I guess me and ESPN's Charlie Moore are on the same page.
When the lights are one, they're always on. Sometimes you can misread people but certainly there are more times where you can read whether that switch is on than not within a single sentence uttered. Dave in his line of work, his experience interviewing people is really impressive.. how well he can size up his guests and coach them through a segment, make it comedic without critical (mostly) of the guest.. he has more than comedic genius and I think that quote there shines a light on that.
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