I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
DICK CAVETTAnything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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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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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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