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All Dick Cavett Quotes
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Dick Cavett
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
Dick Cavett
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
Dick Cavett
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If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.
Dick Cavett
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I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
Dick Cavett
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
Dick Cavett
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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Dick Cavett
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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
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Dick Cavett
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Dick Cavett
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
Dick Cavett
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
Dick Cavett
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Dick Cavett
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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.
Dick Cavett
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