Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
DICK CAVETTThe 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.
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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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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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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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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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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