American - Entertainer | November 19, 1936 -
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'
Dick Cavett
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It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.
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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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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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Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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