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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Chocolate Hands Ideas Myself Practice Shock Worst
I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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Block Easy Hard Myself Reason Writing
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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Artificial Function Human Situation Tribute
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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Anxiety Born Ego Gift Strong Writing
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
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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Father Myself Phone Sound Time
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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Believe Confession Live Planet Reading Reminder Space
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
Its 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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Angel Down Food Fun Pieces Show Talk Tension
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

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