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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.

Dick Cavett

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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Brilliant Comedy Foot Myself Pain Time
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership Thinking
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
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’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
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
If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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Campaign Comedy Myself Pizza Run Talent Wisdom Young
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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Amount Limitation Pressure Reading Subject Wrong
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
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
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Acceptance Financial People Profit Yourself

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