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Running 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.

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
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
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
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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College Learning Myself Realization
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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Appearance Count Death Show Talk Yourself
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance
I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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Children Feeling Fools Guide Home Parents Poor Smart
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Dirty Food Letter Mindset Word
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Acceptance Financial People Profit Yourself
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.”
DICK CAVETT

Afraid Mindset Myself People Police Sex Violence
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People

Running 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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