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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.

Dick Cavett

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
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 think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
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
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Disturb Label Lose Myself Problem Vulnerable
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership Thinking
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Complex Curiosity Dreams Protection Weird
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
Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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Food Myself Reach Time
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance

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