Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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