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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.

Dick Cavett

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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Blessing Head Movie Myself Perfection Teacher
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
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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Big Book Mistake Reading Start Yourself
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself
Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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Commercial Exposure Judge Rare Screen
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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Eat Food Hungry Myself Power
You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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People Reason Television Watch
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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Appearance Material Naive Television Thinking Way Yourself
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
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
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Amazing Capacity Greatness Man
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Information News Youth

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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