I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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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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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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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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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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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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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