The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
DICK CAVETTGreatly 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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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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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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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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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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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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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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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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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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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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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