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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.

Dick Cavett

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
DICK CAVETT

Funny Myself People
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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Comedy Need Resent Writing Yourself
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
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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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
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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Disturb Label Lose Myself Problem Vulnerable
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Hate Movie Myself
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Day Device Myself Sick
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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Father Myself Phone Sound Time
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Name Street Surprise Time Yourself
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
Every 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!
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Article Channel Choice Kind Old Possible
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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Advice Best Conversation Interview Myself Talk
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Feeling Himself Man Old Wrong Young
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance
The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Information Kill People Place Sound
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Greatness List Name
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Depression Ghost Misery Rare
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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Book Children Fatal Myself Neck Reading
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.
DICK CAVETT

Alphabet Book Guest Intellectual Reading

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