Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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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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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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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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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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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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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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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