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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

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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Artificial Function Human Situation Tribute
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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Appearance Count Death Show Talk Yourself
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
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
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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Benefit Father Greatness Life Myself
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Chocolate Hands Ideas Myself Practice Shock Worst
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
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
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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Brain Joke Mystery Process Result Study Subject
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
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

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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