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I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

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All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

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If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

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I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

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If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

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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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