Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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