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 CAVETTComedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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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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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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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 love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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