I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
DICK CAVETTTherapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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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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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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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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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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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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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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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