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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.

Dick Cavett

Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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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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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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