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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

Dick Cavett

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?’
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Name Street Surprise Time Yourself
Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Best Dumb Great Talent Unknown Wrong
I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Book Category Death Record Talk Thinking
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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Better Image Listening Medium Mindset Television Yourself
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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Conversation Memorable Myself Order Sentence
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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Site Try Weapon Wish
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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Head Inflection Trick Word Writing Yourself

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