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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
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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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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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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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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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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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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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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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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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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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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