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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
Host
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Writer
Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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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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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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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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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I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
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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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If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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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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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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