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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

Dick Cavett

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Benefit Father Greatness Life Myself
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
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’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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Advice Best Conversation Interview Myself Talk
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
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
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
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Information Kill People Place Sound
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
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Achievement Dreams Myself Night Someday

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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