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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

Dick Cavett

I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
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
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
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
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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Appearance Material Naive Television Thinking Way Yourself
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
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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Joke Myself Short Show Subject
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

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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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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