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Dick Cavett Quotes: 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.
         

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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