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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.

Dick Cavett

If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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Campaign Comedy Myself Pizza Run Talent Wisdom Young
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
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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Brain Heart Life Music Straight
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
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
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
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
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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Head Inflection Trick Word Writing Yourself
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
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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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
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay

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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