Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavettis an American television personality and former talk show host notable for his conversational style and in-depth discussions. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth19 November 1936
CityGibbon, NE
CountryUnited States of America
writing people able
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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I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
thinking television way
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
years people long
The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
sarcastic teacher stars
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'
moments comic reports
Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.
ice guests rough
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
dream anxiety next
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
together honest asks
Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'
nuts levels sound
There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
boys water wife
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
brain mystery study
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
language legislation sloppy
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
entertainment television associates
I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.