I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
DICK CAVETTMy dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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