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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

Dick Cavett

I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Book Category Death Record Talk Thinking
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Greatness List Name
The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Information Kill People Place Sound
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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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Assumption Finance Handle Himself People Treat
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Allow Day Violate
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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Damage Goodness Talk Time
There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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Devotee Head Level Romance Society Weapon
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
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
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Day Device Myself Sick
It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Information News Youth
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance

It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

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