Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
DICK CAVETTDepression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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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 have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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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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