I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
DICK CAVETTThe sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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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’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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