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Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.
Jack Paar
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Jack Paar
Age: 85 †
Born: 1918
Born: May 1
Died: 2004
Died: January 27
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Jack Harold Paar
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.
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The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.
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Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.
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Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe I was born with a silver knife in my back.
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The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.
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Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was nearly knocked out and might have been even more seriously hurt but my fall was broken by the smog.
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