The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
DICK CAVETTEvery 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!
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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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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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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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