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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Dick Cavett

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Hate Movie Myself
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.”
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Afraid Mindset Myself People Police Sex Violence
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
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
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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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
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 don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Feeling Himself Man Old Wrong Young
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
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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Conversation Memorable Myself Order Sentence
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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Alphabet Book Guest Intellectual Reading
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
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
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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Brilliant Comedy Foot Myself Pain Time
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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Brain Joke Mystery Process Result Study Subject
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Class Fresh Olympic Several Yourself
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
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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Angel Down Food Fun Pieces Show Talk Tension
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Dirty Food Letter Mindset Word
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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Disturb Label Lose Myself Problem Vulnerable
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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Site Try Weapon Wish
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
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand

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