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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 in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that s... NICHOLAS SPARKS It was alchemy. You know, people just really liked each other. We spent all our time off-camera toge... SARAH JESSICA PARKER I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I li... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I believed that inside every fat person was a hole the size of the world; I believed that every fat ... JUDITH MOORE They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wan... AMY SEDARIS Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an i... E. LOCKHART My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kind... CLINT EASTWOOD Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn... EBERHARD WEBER And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people try... LIZA MINNELLI There was a time when I had all of his attention and loved it. As much as I wanted him to leave me a... PENELOPE DOUGLAS Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I ... JAROD KINTZ My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around. GARY HUME The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had abo... BETTY SMITH I just thought about the impact she was making on me. Then, it took more of a global perspective. To... KRISTINA MATARAZZO Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name. C.S. LEWIS So many people have approached me and said, 'Can I do a musical of John,' ... It's a very simple ide... YOKO ONO She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone... JOHN GREEN And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis wa... JACKIE DESHANNON As time passes you by you start to think and realize that you spent so much money on things you like... MARK IBRAHIM Izzy. My sister. She told me you liked me. Liked me, liked me.” “Liked you, l... CASSANDRA CLARE A person often saying ‘I LOVE YOU ALL’ to the people is just ensuring merely oneself each time t... ANUJ SOMANY For the first 20 minutes, it was strange. But as time goes on, you just say it's football with a dif... KORDELL STEWART When I was writing it, I was remembering how hard it was to be a 16-year-old in high school. I alway... GERARD WAY My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised m... KAKUZō OKAKURA I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was ju... ERIN MORGENSTERN If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stre... LAKE BELL A person with an eating disorder will always say they're full, but I was always hungry. I liked feel... GARY GRAHL I don't know if my pro-am partners liked me much. I was on the phone all the time, kept text-messagi... WES SHORT JR I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet nev... GARY JENNINGS I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. ... WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like the... ALEX KINGSTON We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know ea... V.C. ANDREWS I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one pers... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I knew of jazz, but I didn't like it. I always thought only older people liked jazz - you know, you ... HERBIE HANCOCK I didn't start as well as I would have liked to. She really got on top of me early and she didn't le... JAMEA JACKSON We always liked the color green. GARY SAULSON I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred... WENDY FROUD Everyone in my family pretty much has gone here so it seemed like the only option. I think (Lott) al... JENNIFER HOWARD You have to pay attention to the moments when you've felt on top on the world. I remember the fi... SEBASTIAN STAN Everybody was feeling it a little bit on the third day. We definitely weren't as fresh as we would'v... CHRISTIAN WRIGHT We had conversations about the type of music he liked and the type I liked. But they were always fri... DONALD SPARROW Mrs Hargreaves liked her job and she liked the Hoopers. As far as she was concerned there was far to... EDWARD COWLING As a player, you understand fans have a loyalty to the team, but I?m still the guy you liked two yea... CHAD BROWN When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified. into paralysis, she collapsed... JOHN GREEN It was a little frustrating. I liked what I saw as far as our effort, but we just didn't finish. JEFF KNOUSE My first CD that I had was the Ying Yang Twinz, and my grandma bought it for me. Honestly, I think m... LIL UZI VERT And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my... JOHN GREEN As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be l... PETER STEELE I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they... GAL GADOT It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked b... STEPHEN FRY I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it... ANDY SAMBERG I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she... RAYMOND BURR What I liked about it was that it talked about girls together in their own little world, which was U... LUCILE HADZIHALILOVIC The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA This was special, as far as my first time goes, playing against my favorite player ever in Brett Fav... J.P. LOSMAN Pat was a different person. She asked about the children in the hospital, the food, their medical ca... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you move as much as I have...you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, bu... MORGAN MATSON I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. Sh... JUSTIN CHON I'm just shy, ... I wanted to meet Robert because I liked his acting. But he was looking at me funny... VAL KILMER I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm a... TAHYNA TOZZI Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and gu... DAVE MUSTAINE I liked quickness very much and Pete had it. And I really liked his acceptance of the role he had. H... JOHN WOODEN He said he had this play and asked if I'd read it, ... I liked it a lot and told him that I'd do it.... HAL HOLBROOK I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I'... BILL CLINTON I think it's just the year of experience under her belt. Last year, she was trying it out to see if ... KATRINA VAN TASSEL This is the list you carry in your pocket, of the things you plan to say to Kay, when you find him, ... KELLY LINK For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, an... ROBERT LORENZ It was annoying to me the first time I ever heard it. Mind you, I had to go perform that all the tim... LINDA PERRY I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministr... BILLY GRAHAM I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. ... JADE JONES No, not really. But …” Okay, I couldn’t help but gloat a little. “She likes me.” Same... LIA HABEL He Liked Pizzas, she Burger. He Liked Italian, she Continental. He Liked muffins, she puff... NISHANT KUMAR I liked theater, but I was a nurse, a mother, and later a school psychologist. I didn't have time to... PAT LESTER Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anyt... KENNETH KOCH I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it. CLARENCE DARROW I liked James and James liked me and we both knew it and if you think about it, that's like a miracl... ROBIN BENWAY I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many p... REBECCA KATHERINE MARTIN I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an ... L.M. MONTGOMERY I think everyone was in agreement the John Bolduc had absolutely pitch perfect intonation and just b... JACK KNOX We know how we both train and we just work together to get the workouts done right. As kids, we were... ERIC CAMEROTA It's not only necessary to know how to go about loving your enemies, but also to go down into the qu... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS She had feared the worst, and even though at that very moment she would have liked to wring her neck... MIRELLA MUFFAROTTO All my way through college, I worked my way as a window dresser for Lord & Taylor, so I always l... JOAN RIVERS Interviewed after their transformation the girl said she still liked them ? but only as much as she ... ROBERT THOMPSON You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me li... KIM HARRISON I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me whe... CAROLL SPINNEY What was brick was beautiful, as far as Jack was concerned, and the more we had, the better he liked... AUDREY MOORE I took a glance at the clock, and I only saw a couple of seconds and I still had three balls there. ... DIRK NOWITZKI What young people didn’t know, she thought, lying down beside this man, his hand on her shoulder, ... ELIZABETH STROUT The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I alwa... DEMETRI MARTIN It felt good to represent Mississippi. Everyone on the team was so talented. We just had to play tog... DEDRA MAGEE She was a little intimidating, not as a person but just on the court because she's so physical and s... ABBY WANER We rehearsed in the same place as Curt, so we saw him all the time and everything, but he wasn't in ... JONATHAN RICHMAN It's all the same to me. I'm enjoying this just as much as if I had won it individually. It's a nati... LAURA COBLE
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