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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.’

Dick Cavett

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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Blessing Head Movie Myself Perfection Teacher
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Complex Curiosity Dreams Protection Weird
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Acceptance Financial People Profit Yourself
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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Block Easy Hard Myself Reason Writing
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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Eat Food Hungry Myself Power
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
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
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Information News Youth
There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Allow Day Violate
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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Best Column Consider Home Myself Suspect
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 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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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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