Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
DICK CAVETTEvery so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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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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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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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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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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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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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 someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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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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