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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.

Dick Cavett

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
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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Brain Heart Life Music Straight
I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Feeling Himself Man Old Wrong Young
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
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
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
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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Comic Myself See Show Stand
Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Beyond Criticism Death Declare Escape Reproach
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
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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Food Myself Reach Time
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
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

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.

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