I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.
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Related He never knew my name, He never knew my name. And though I never met him, I knew him just the same, ... BOB DYLAN Dad pressed against my mind. Please, Allison. Let me, just this once, hold my son. I shouldn't... DEVON MONK I knew on the last restart I had to get going. I got a great jump. I knew I was ahead a little bit c... MARK MARTIN His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, .... ROBERT WISE In 2003 the blackmail started. He started calling me and first said he was a private investigator. I... KIRK TALLEY My father was a great, great fan of the game. I grew up watching it with him. He'd take me to see th... HOWDY GROSKLOSS I saw him scoop it up and I saw the cavalry with him. I thought that he could get it, because I knew... JAMES FARRIOR All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let ... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I knew that the guy had touched it, and I think he knew that too. I don't know why he was doing that... ERREK SUHR I wonder if he'll ever see the truth in my own heart: that, whatever Dustpelt says, however much Fir... ERIN HUNTER My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't... PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't... PARIS JACKSON I just knew who it was. The light was on and I saw him. He had a ski mask on, but it was all open ..... JOHN GARRETT Nobody ever dared with Frank, because he had such mood swings, and you never knew how he was going t... DON RICKLES Can a husband ever carry about a secret all his life and a woman who loves him have no suspicion of ... ARTHUR CONAN Can a husband ever carry about a secret all his life and a woman who loves him have no suspicion of ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, rig... LANA DEL REY One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Tool... TOBIN BELL Seeing him in practice, I knew he could catch the ball. But he surprised me with some great catches ... BO THOMPSON I knew down on the mat I was probably better than him, and as long as I could stay with him on my fe... GRANT GAMBRALL (Miller's) an athlete, he's one of the premier players in the state of Kentucky. I just wanted to st... JAKE WELLS That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you d... SUZANNE COLLINS When I wrote to him, he was still starring in 'Third Rock,' so kids knew who he was. And I think he'... DAVID GALE You could look at the guy next to you and you knew what he went through. You'd know you'd go through... CLAYTON MCCULLOUGH It is pretty amazing to still see him going, but growing up with him you just knew it was something ... DAVE BELL I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I... CHERYL COLE My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he... PAIGE VANZANT I could hardly believe we got him, ... I mean, he knew Michael Bennett personally. He did A Chorus L... KEITH DIXON I stared at him. Did he really just say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eye... JENNY HAN He practiced on his kicking and as you can see he got better at it. When he first came he barely kne... BRIAN ROLLE The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I went to a Little League game when Michael was in the sixth grade and watched him play. When I saw ... JOE CARLUCCI My daughter recommended Chris O'Dowd to me after seeing him in 'Bridesmaids,' so I watch... CHRISTOPHER GUEST I knew him because he used to teach me when I first started (boxing). JOSE GUZMAN I asked him if it bothered him that I don't like baseball. He used to laugh, 'cause I'd say I'd stra... JODI OLSON I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could no... SELMA LAGERLOF While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perha... ALEKSANDAR HEMON I'm probably not 100 pounds anymore, but around there. I definitely got obsessed with my weight.... DANICA PATRICK God bless Brad Jones, he feels about as badly as he can feel. The first 30 days I represented him, I... CARL CORNWELL I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, ... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't know how I feel when I see him smiling like that. To see him smiling again without it bein... BETTY BLAKE He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the... AYN RAND You see, that's who you are, Joe. All these things. That's the person I know, and through him is the... SARAH WINMAN We knew he'd be psyched up. We knew if we could give him a shot at it, he could get us home and he d... CHAD ENGLEHART I was not looking for HIM, he was just always there, the little BOY! I have not seen HIM, because I ... - NIRAV SANCHANIYA Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what... JENNY HAN Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do t... TEDDY SHERINGHAM At practice two days ago you could see the look in his eyes. You knew he was going to play well toda... HENRY MASON I never even heard of him or met him in my life. But when I got downstairs, he said, 'I've been wait... HAL TURNER Megan had become a walking, talking piece of evidence. She knew him. She could identify him. He knew... KATHRYN FLICKER When I thought I'd killed him, I felt more alone than I've felt in a long time. Like I couldn't stan... KAREN MARIE MONING My granddad always said he wanted to make me an England player. As soon as I went on to that pitch a... DAVID DUNN I knew that they would probably go to him (Walker) because he is their best shooter. I leaped as hig... MARCUS MORRISON I can't remember a freshman I've coached that has stepped on the field as a freshman and played how ... CHARLIE WILLIAMS That was a tough one with Omar. I knew he didn't want to hit leadoff, and fortunately we had other p... ERIC WEDGE My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I r... JOSEPH BRUCHAC I knew what man I had. I covered him, but I wasn't in my alignment. And because I wasn't, he broke b... GREG JOSEPH Shane Murphy taught me so much, he was like my older brother, ... Every day I would just watch him a... JAMES LYNCH And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the ... NICHOLAS SPARKS We could see that he wasn't at his best. We could see it would be a further decline for him. We knew... HOLLIE COLAHAN I am eighty-three years old, but I only remember the last seventy-one years. You see, when I was twe... T.J. KLUNE David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside ... CRAIG GROESCHEL I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m... TRINI LOPEZ The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I ... TRACIE MILES He has been less process oriented and less programmed than I've ever seen him. He has a much more ea... ELAINE KAMARCK Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had, PETER GOULD I actually ran into Justin Bieber when nobody knew him at the Kids' Choice Awards. He came up to... TERRY CREWS We all knew he'd get on a streak. I knew he had it in him. He can keep this going for weeks. Be sure... EVAN BROCK Stuff happens. That's all I can say about that. I shot in and somehow he caught me. It was tough to ... LAWRENCE CAVELLO I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor... J. B. PRIESTLEY I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor... JOSEPH PRIESTLEY To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together becau... JERMAINE JACKSON He started to serve big. I think he knew he had to serve bigger because in the baseline rallies, I w... JURGEN MELZER I think Shannon should look at my granny and tell her that he's sorry, because he kept calling and a... LISA PARKER I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was abo... CORMAC MCCARTHY I knew he could play, but nobody would bite on him. JEFF HORN I knew he was going to be a factor and I knew he could do well. DAVID MALDONADO I could see his hoof prints digging in so I knew that I must be giving him a shake. ED ITEN I think Bill was so helpful because he knew the BRAC process, he knew the shipyard and he could arti... DICK INGRAM I knew he could do it if he could get the waves. GRANT WASHBURN I thought his conditioning might be a bit off when he came back. I told him I wasn't going to watch ... CHAD POWELL I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could ... CARL STOKES Today, we celebrate life. A man who gave his life [to others] since the time I met him at the age of... SARA WHITE My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat... BEN CURTIS I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out... PATTI STANGER He was in good spirits when I spoke to him this morning. You could see that there was a little bit o... CRAIG RIVET Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the ... MARTI NOXON With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t... JACQUES VILLENEUVE After we lost early wickets I knew my contribution was vital and I knew I just had to help see us th... LEON JOHNSON I know Tony and I knew he had done something he was ashamed of. I could see it in his face. So, I to... JIM LARRANAGA When I first shook Stanley Williams' hand, I knew that he was innocent and that we'd be connected un... JAMIE FOXX I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any o... SHERWOOD SMITH Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn... RICK RIORDAN I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign l... MATT REEVES As soon as the ball hit the bat I was going. I was lucky it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to G... JOEY GATHRIGHT I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. A... RANDY NEWMAN I watched him wrestle in his semifinal match and saw that he got tired in the third period. I knew I... CLAYTON WETZEL I just knew I had the sack in the bag, but he threw it, ... I didn't even see him throw it. I had my... LEROY HILL When I got there last year he was mostly a low post player, but watching him in practice I knew he c... EMANUEL BROWN
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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a si... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be... R.B. O'BRIEN That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You co... TIM O'BRIEN The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not... JOSEPH O'NEILL When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered. JOHN O'DONOHUE Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. TIM O'BRIEN Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ... MEGHAN O'ROURKE There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a ... STEWART O'NAN We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those ... TIM O'BRIEN It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero. TIM O'BRIEN Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will ... RONAN O'BRIEN A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks mo... P.J. O'ROURKE Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ... PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me. KELVIN O'RALPH I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ... JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen. CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio... MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked. "Magic mushrooms." "I've always wanted to try those," he... HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.Oh, so that we sha... DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu... STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ... P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations! JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ... ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable... DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve... P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion. CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e... JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev... JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard... R.B. O'BRIEN