A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
DICK CAVETTEvery comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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