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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

Dick Cavett

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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Comic Court Early Known Rank Rough Survive
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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Blessing Head Movie Myself Perfection Teacher
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
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
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Greatness List Name
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
I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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Exercise Friendship Lost Maintenance Myself
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Relative Remember Thinking Youth
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself
Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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Comedy Need Resent Writing Yourself
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself

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