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.
DICK CAVETTThe 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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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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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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