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Dick Cavett

Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (/?kæv?t/; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality and former talk show host notable for his conversational style and in-depth discussions. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.

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Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how ...

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If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, ...

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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading ti ...

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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I reali ...

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The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant ...

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Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment o ...

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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

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All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, an ...

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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, h ...

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I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and ...

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It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions ...

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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I ...

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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianis ...

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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never fe ...

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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little bette ...

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