Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
DICK CAVETTTherapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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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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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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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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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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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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