By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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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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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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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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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Every 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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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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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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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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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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