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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

Dick Cavett

I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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Exercise Friendship Lost Maintenance Myself
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
Greatly 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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Best Dumb Great Talent Unknown Wrong
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
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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Big Book Mistake Reading Start Yourself
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
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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Conversation Memorable Myself Order Sentence
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
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
I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Feeling Himself Man Old Wrong Young
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Disturb Label Lose Myself Problem Vulnerable
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Assurance Greatness History Subject Union
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
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

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