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.
DICK CAVETTThe sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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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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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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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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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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