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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

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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
Years
Requiring
Profession
Training
Teaching
Art

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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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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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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
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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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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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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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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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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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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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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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