Dick Cavett Quotes

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• Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice. Comedy
• I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another. Anyone
• I think I'd be pretty easy to write for. Easy
• 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… Admitted
• I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for… Any
• 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… All
• Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. Better
• I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him. Feel
• The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex. Became
• It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours… College
• My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's. Albert
• I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants. Abstinence
• Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it. Brain
• Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed. Endorsed
• In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. Depressed
• 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… Accused
• I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly. Bright
• Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease. Ease
• I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity. Age
• Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training. Art

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