Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
DICK CAVETTRunning my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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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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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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