Dick Cavett Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Dick Cavett

  Block, Writing, Giving

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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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  Gun, Trying, President

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.189, Henry Holt and Company

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• To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

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  Intellectual, Labels, Misunderstanding

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• I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

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  And Love, Stories, Coincidence

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.211, Macmillan

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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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  Swimming, Yale, Class

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• The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad's life.

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  Dad, Benefits, Facts

  "Cavett's Conversations: 'When People Simply Talk'". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 9, 2010.

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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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  Writing, People, Able

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• I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.

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  Gun, Lovers, Feels

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• The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

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  Feel Good, Brain, Authority

  "On the Couch... with Dick Cavett". Interview with Deborah Serani, www.psychologytoday.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

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  Feet, Guy, Noses

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 2, 2010.

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• Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

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  Stars, People, Brain

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.154, Henry Holt and Company

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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!

  Dick Cavett

  Doe, Stopping, Journalism

  Interview with Jimmy Fallon, nymag.com. September 6, 2009.

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• Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

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  Tvs, Subtle, Sinister

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.67, Macmillan

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• The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

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  Dream, Anxiety, Next

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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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  Years, Knowing, Soul

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• Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

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  Running, Drama, Tragedy

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• Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.

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  Lists

  "Here's the Thing" with Alec Baldwin, www.wnyc.org. February 27, 2012.

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• Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

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  Fun, Angel, Pitfalls

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.39, Henry Holt and Company

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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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  Dream, Night, Guests

  "Former Talk Show Host Dick Cavett Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 5, 2012.

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• Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

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  Moments, Comic, Reports

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.164, Macmillan

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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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  Two, People, Watching Tv

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

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  Loss, Losing, Problem

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

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  Giving, Support, Needs

  "On the Couch... with Dick Cavett". Interview with Deborah Serani, www.psychologytoday.com. April 21, 2011.

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

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  People, Kicks

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• I hate Danny Kaye movies.

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  Hate, I Hate

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