Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
DICK CAVETTIts 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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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 hate Danny Kaye movies.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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