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Dick Cavett Inspirational Quotes (80)

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When I'm doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: 'Tell about the guy who died on your show!'
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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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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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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
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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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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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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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.
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To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.
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I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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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 information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.
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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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Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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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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