My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
DICK CAVETTIt takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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