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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

To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
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
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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Campaign Comedy Myself Pizza Run Talent Wisdom Young
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
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
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
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
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
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance
There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Form Law Online Weapon Yourself
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Dirty Food Letter Mindset Word
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 feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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Children Feeling Fools Guide Home Parents Poor Smart
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
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
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself

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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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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