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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.

Dick Cavett

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
DICK CAVETT

Comedy Need Resent Writing Yourself
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance
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
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
Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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Food Myself Reach Time
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
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
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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Advice Best Conversation Interview Myself Talk
There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Allow Day Violate
Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Category Depression Different Small True
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Information Kill People Place Sound
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
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand

I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.

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