Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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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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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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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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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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