Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
DICK CAVETTIts fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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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.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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