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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

Dick Cavett

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
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Anxiety Born Ego Gift Strong Writing
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Relative Remember Thinking Youth
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Comic Court Early Known Rank Rough Survive
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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Better Image Listening Medium Mindset Television 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 always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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Honesty Myself Time Togetherness
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Name Street Surprise Time Yourself
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
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
Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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Angel Down Food Fun Pieces Show Talk Tension

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