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!
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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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