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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.

Dick Cavett

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
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
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
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’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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Administration Eyes See Sight
Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Best Dumb Great Talent Unknown Wrong
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
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
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
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing

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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