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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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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Gibbon
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Richard Alva Cavett
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I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.
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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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