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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.

Dick Cavett

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
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.”
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Afraid Mindset Myself People Police Sex Violence
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
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Acceptance Financial People Profit Yourself
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Assurance Greatness History Subject Union
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Hate Movie Myself
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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Father Myself Phone Sound Time
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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Damage Goodness Talk Time
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Class Fresh Olympic Several Yourself
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
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
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
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
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
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Best Dumb Great Talent Unknown Wrong
I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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Body Comedy Comic Myself
If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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Campaign Comedy Myself Pizza Run Talent Wisdom Young
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself

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