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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.

Dick Cavett

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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Appearance Material Naive Television Thinking Way Yourself
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
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
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’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
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
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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Book Children Fatal Myself Neck Reading
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
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
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership Thinking
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
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

If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.

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