I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
DICK CAVETTMusic bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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