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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Richard Alva Cavett
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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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I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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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 was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.
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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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Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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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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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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