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Dick Cavett Quotes

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

Dick Cavett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 19, 1936

Topics

Great Time Name Long You Long Time

Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard for black people to have a fair share.

Jesse White

King People Tough Black Segregation

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

Jerry Hall

Family Marriage Broken Think You Up

I am rich enough.

John Cusack

I Am Rich Enough Am

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

Stephen Bayley

Mind Me Someone Hand Video Grenades

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

Spencer Dryden

Being Artists Bohemian Around Types

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

Tony Dungy

Strength God Wisdom Day Grace Get

I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.

Drea De Matteo

Ground Playing Been Still Characters

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love Me You Will Tell Who

When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.

Anne Sweeney

Story Thinking You Audience Big

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Timothy White

Complacency You Kind Need Because

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

Ricki Lake

Famous Weird Someone You Meet Who

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

Howard Schultz

Mother Age Yourself Me You Young