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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Buffett came and sat in with us the other night in Chicago. That was fun. He and I played 'A Pirate ... JACK JOHNSON When I joined it was at the same time that he came back to the club after running a few sports shops... COLIN COOPER Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusal... BIBLE URSULA K. LE GUIN No one has really seen me in years.” Blake looked at the sky. “Sometimes I wonder how they know ... DEBRA ANASTASIA 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON I am eighty-three years old, but I only remember the last seventy-one years. You see, when I was twe... T.J. KLUNE I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t... ALAN J. HEEGER Hiro (the Crown Prince) was kind and often gave me words of encouragement. Aya (Prince Akishino) was... EMPRESS MICHIKO A scout told me that he could have pitched in the big leagues that night, and he was only 17. But I ... DINO EBEL JOSEPH ADDISON I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the... RANDY BACHMAN Will knelt beside me. I wished I could have taken a holo of him at that moment and played it for him... CAMERON STRACHER One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get on... RANDY HOUSER He was my right-hand man, no question. He worked with me most of the time as my offensive line coach... BILL MARION D.H. LAWRENCE CECELIA AHERN RAINBOW ROWELL He injured his knee and ankle at the same time. When he was scrambling, [he] came up into the line, ... STEVE ANTONOPULOS LINCOLN STEFFENS It will never be true. Things have never been okay with us. Maybe if I'd paid attention, I would hav... AMANDA GRACE Years ago, I had a wonderful relationship with the doorman in my building, who would always stop and... HILKA KLINKENBERG Obviously, he [dropped down] in the second, so that meant he was feeling good. I asked him [if he wa... DON COOPER Before the game, at half-time, he shook my hand and he hugged me. That is the kind of friendship he ... DANNY MAESTAS He was signing a lot of autographs and doing a lot of interviews. But when he finally came out of th... KEVIN KELLY KATHERINE DUNN He just went to bed and never woke up. That was a tough day... my brother's birthday, too. I was nin... STAFFAN KRONWALL I was starting to warm up, and he came up to me and asked if he could work out with me. Of course, I... DOUG HICKEY I have a 100 individual memories of the beauty of John's play. One stands out for the sheer perfecti... 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It was driving me nuts and I couldn't sleep, kno... GREG RUBIN CRAIG GROESCHEL CHRISTIAN BALE He came over after World War II. He was in Germany learning from engineers when he was 16 years old.... ANDREW KLENERT From him I got my love for music, and for many years I was the classical music critic for magazines ... MARK ROTHKO MARY ANN TODD LINCOLN ALLEN GINSBERG And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: / And Esau said to Jacob, Fee... BIBLE D.H. LAWRENCE COCO J. GINGER I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax. And I think that he should just have the l... TIM CURRY I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax, ... And I think that he should just have t... TIM CURRY GEORGE MACDONALD RICHELLE MEAD GARSON KANIN A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twin... DOROTHEA KENT He called me, and he was crying. He was actually in Germany at that time, and I asked him what was w... CRAIG SARNER KATE WINSLET RICHELLE MEAD He could kill me in a second, and I know that. But at the same time, bears are very social animals. ... CASEY ANDERSON He was totally destructive. He was hard to handle. You couldn't manage him at all. He would scream a... AMY THOMPSON The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son... ISAIAH WASHINGTON Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sa... DAVID RUDISHA It was very emotional to get that house. At the same time, it wasn't a surprise. Ronnie has told me ... JOYCE BROWN LAURELL K. HAMILTON MICHAEL DAVIS MARK A. COOPER TREVANTE RHODES DADA BHAGWAN When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN SARAH J. MAAS That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was gro... DAVID WROBLEWSKI MIRANDA JULY I was one of the guys that understood that if I was in his position and my school wanted me, it woul... BEN UTECHT SHAWN MICHAELS CASSIE SCERBO GEORGE MACDONALD I can't remember a time in the last five years that I've gone to sleep and slept all the way through... KIM ARTHUR T Joe had six months tenure on me. However, he came to the industry with a Ph.D. and many years of c... CARRIE AARON He first kidnapped me, dragged me into his car. At first he asked me to sleep with him and offered g... ISMA MAHMOOD i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough,... WHITNEY CUMMINGS In my old age, it's kind of funny - at night, what I like to do is watch TV when I go to sleep. ... PHIL EVERLY TINA BROWN CHE GUEVARA I asked the world to let me have all the fun while I was young. I became old, and realized it wasn't... SUSIE L HILL TOM HOOPER KAMILA SHAMSIE Hunter was bipolar, for crying out loud. He had checked into the nut house on more than one occasion... CHASE BROOKS WILL DURANT He'll never be here for me to grow old with. He was my life. He was my love. He was my heart and sou... ARMY SGT. DEYTH BANGER I was all excited. I went and shook hands with Tommy, and the first thing he pointed out to me was I... STEVE BALLMER JACKIE KENNEDY The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL I submerged myself in his life. Before I went to sleep at night, that's what I was watching. The... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR.
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