I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
DICK CAVETTThere are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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