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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

Dick Cavett

I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
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.
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Brain Joke Mystery Process Result Study Subject
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
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
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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Better Depression Function Patience Sadness Suicide
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
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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Bright Empty Evaporate Future Language Myself Quick
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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Comedy Need Resent Writing Yourself
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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Big Book Mistake Reading Start Yourself
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
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle

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