I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
DICK CAVETTWhy 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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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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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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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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