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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
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Television Presenter
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Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
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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 find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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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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Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.
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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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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
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