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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’

Dick Cavett

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Assumption Finance Handle Himself People Treat
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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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.
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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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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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Eat Food Hungry Myself Power

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’

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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’

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