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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Dick Cavett

Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Greatness List Name
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
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Hate Movie Myself
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
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
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Depression Ghost Misery Rare
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
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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Brilliant Comedy Foot Myself Pain Time
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
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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Exercise Friendship Lost Maintenance Myself
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
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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Better Depression Function Patience Sadness Suicide

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