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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.

Dick Cavett

I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
DICK CAVETT

Life Live Myself
I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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Joke Myself Short Show Subject
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership Thinking
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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Alphabet Book Guest Intellectual Reading
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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Appearance Material Naive Television Thinking Way Yourself
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!
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Article Channel Choice Kind Old Possible
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True

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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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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