I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
DICK CAVETTPerhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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 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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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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