In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
DICK CAVETTI have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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