I have a long list of things that make me mad.
DICK CAVETTEvery so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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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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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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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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