In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
DICK CAVETTEvery 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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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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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 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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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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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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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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