Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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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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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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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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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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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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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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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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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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