I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
DICK CAVETTJust think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Comedians 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.
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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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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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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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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