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.
DICK CAVETTNobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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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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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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