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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

Dick Cavett

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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Head Inflection Trick Word Writing Yourself
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Depression Ghost Misery Rare
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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People Reason Television Watch
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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Believe Confession Live Planet Reading Reminder Space
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Book Category Death Record Talk Thinking
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.
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Body Comedy Comic Myself
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself
You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Name Street Surprise Time Yourself

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