I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
DICK CAVETTGreatly 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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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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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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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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