How a Great Speech Took a Movie from Simple Summer Blockbuster to Cinema Classic
Confession: I’m not really a movie buff. There is a wide swath of movies cutting through the modern lexicon of
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Confession: I’m not really a movie buff. There is a wide swath of movies cutting through the modern lexicon of
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Continue reading(Let’s get this out of the way, right up front: What follows might be the most stereotypical post ever written
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Continue readingAre you a writer who has heard an awful lot about this “author platform” thing and you’re not quite sure
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