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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Dick Cavett

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
I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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Body Comedy Comic 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
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Acceptance Financial People Profit Yourself
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Disturb Label Lose Myself Problem Vulnerable
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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People Reason Television Watch
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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Book Children Fatal Myself Neck Reading
Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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Honesty Myself Time Togetherness
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
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

It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

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