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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.

Dick Cavett

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
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Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Writer
Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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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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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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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
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I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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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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