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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
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Screenwriter
Television Presenter
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Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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When I'm doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: 'Tell about the guy who died on your show!'
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.
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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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All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'
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I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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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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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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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