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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’

Dick Cavett

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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Administration Eyes See Sight
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
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
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Anxiety Born Ego Gift Strong Writing
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
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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Site Try Weapon Wish
A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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Big Book Mistake Reading Start Yourself
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Greatness List Name
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
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

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