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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
Host
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Writer
Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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Sinister
Thereby
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Anything

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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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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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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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 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 live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.
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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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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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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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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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