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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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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
Host
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Writer
Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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