Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
DICK CAVETT
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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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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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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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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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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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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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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.
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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 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.
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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’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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