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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.
Dick Cavett
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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Richard Alva Cavett
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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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I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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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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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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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'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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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 live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.
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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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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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 haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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