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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
Dick Cavett
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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Artistic Gymnast
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Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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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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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
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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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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'
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I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.
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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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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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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!
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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.
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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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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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.
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