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.
DICK CAVETTGreatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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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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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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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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