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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

Dick Cavett

I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
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
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
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself
You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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People Reason Television Watch
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Achievement Dreams Myself Night Someday
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Benefit Father Greatness Life Myself
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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Children Feeling Fools Guide Home Parents Poor Smart
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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Head Inflection Trick Word Writing Yourself
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union

I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

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