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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Dick Cavett

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
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
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
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Complex Curiosity Dreams Protection Weird
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 get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People
I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Audience Different Myself Reaction Surprise Thinking
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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Believe Confession Live Planet Reading Reminder Space
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Feeling Himself Man Old Wrong Young
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
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself

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