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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
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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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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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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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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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Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.
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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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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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I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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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 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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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've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
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