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 CAVETTIt 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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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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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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