It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
DICK CAVETTDepression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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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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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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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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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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