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We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about.
John Atkinson
Home
People
Remember
Nothing
Fighting
Down
Back
Hopefully
About
Knew
Got
Go
Were
Up
Going
Against
Ashamed
Far
I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.
John B. Hood
Battle
Sacrifice
Soldiers
Must
Fearful
Feat
Knew
Most
Accomplished
Brave
Gallant
Engaged
Ever
When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.
John Burnside
Me
History
You
Father
Nothing
Think
Other
Circumstances
About
He
Knew
Narrative
Offer
Than
Child
Personal
Realised
Them
Your
Larger
The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.
John Burnside
Son
Sunday
Walks
Other
Birds
Saw
Mining
About
Trips
Beach
Knew
Town
Handful
Than
Native
Decidedly
Urban
Little
Fife
When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
John C. Hawkes
Good
Writing
Immediately
Knew
How
Fiction
Started
I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.
John C. McGinley
You
Mistake
Bit
Bad
Rip
Something
Knew
Soon
Because
Always
Huge
Up
Cox
Maybe
Want
Wanted
Which
Little
Little Bit
Really
Play
Dr
I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?
John Caudwell
Work
Home
People
Money
Made
Easier
India
Find
London
More
Could
Had
Knew
Town
Hire
Than
Stoke
Managers
Senior
Wanted
Might
Creating
Home Town
Satisfying
I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
John Caudwell
Life
Time
Me
My Life
Enough
Gave
All My Life
Charitable
Lies
John
No Time
Had
Knew
Instinct
Read
Want
Working
Epitaph
Billionaire
Here
When I was in The Scream, I thought I'd be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?
John Corabi
Thought
Guys
Knew
Call
Around
Years
Motley
Get
Scream
Gonna
Who
Playing
I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.
John Corey Whaley
You
People
Old
About
Small
Write
Writer
Knew
Town
Like
Always
Years
Fit
Up
Wanted
Grew
Place
Little
Little Town
Growing
Growing Up
In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011.
John Corey Whaley
Book
Year
Out
Would
Knew
Come
Got
Contract
May
Middle
Teaching
Fourth
Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.
John Darnielle
Writing
Job
Before
Lyrics
Had
Written
Hail
Knew
Stuff
New
Most
Material
New Job
West
Texas
Worked
Orientation
Margins
Basically
I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?
John David Washington
Sad
People
Father
Active
Complain
Fathers
Dare
Out
Would
Would-Be
Be Real
Never
Had
Knew
Support
How
Real
Were
Who
Present
I've had the acting bug since I was, like, five. But growing up, I saw how people treated me differently when they knew who my father was, even the stuff I did on the field. Sometimes I'd rush for 100 yards, and the headline would be, 'Denzel's son runs for 100 yards.' That's where the suppression of that bug came from.
John David Washington
Me
Son
People
Sometimes
Father
Field
Saw
Would
Would-Be
Runs
Rush
Had
Knew
Stuff
Headline
Since
Like
Suppression
Bug
Yards
How
Came
Up
Five
Denzel
Did
Where
Acting
Who
Even
Growing
Growing Up
Differently
Treated
Acting was always something deep down I knew I wanted to do. It wasn't, like, a normal profession to want to pursue, and I knew that.
John DeLuca
Down
Something
Pursue
Knew
Like
Always
Normal
Want
Wanted
Acting
Profession
Deep
Deep Down
When I walked through the gate, Universal quit building actors. All of a sudden, I was doing leading roles. I knew I was a tyro, but they told me to shut up and act.
John Gavin
Me
Building
Through
Knew
Leading
Doing
Up
Walked
Roles
Quit
Act
Sudden
Actor
Shut
Shut Up
Universal
Gate
I was a shy kid growing up, and I liked the idea of playing under this alter ego: like, I could be Ziggy Stardust, but I also knew I could never be Ziggy Stardust.
John Gourley
Ego
Kid
Could
Never
Knew
Idea
Like
Liked
Also
Alter
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Stardust
Playing
Shy
I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.
John Hawkes
School
High
High School
Guthrie
Crucible
Knew
Performance
Sophomore
Wanted
Away
Right
Right Away
I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.
John Hawkes
Amazing
Before
Spirit
Attachment
Through
Had
Knew
Announcement
Underdog
Days
Academy
Academy Award
Couple
Nomination
Said
Just
Decided
Sweetheart
Award
Sleep
From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better running a restaurant than I was a geologist.
John Hickenlooper
Day
Better
First
Running
Restaurant
Ten
Ten Times
Knew
Opened
Geologist
Denver
Times
Than
If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.
John Hickenlooper
You
Yourself
Thought
Everything
About
Knew
Know
Liked
How
Been
Question
Off
Goes
Gets
Laid
People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.
John Higgins
Me
People
Innocent
Single
Evidence
Would
Table
Purpose
Never
Knew
Support
Miss
Until
Sure
Ball
Been
Jail
Then
I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.
John Howe
Education
Art
History
School
Overwhelming
Nothing
Think
Everything
France
Extremely
High
High School
Clear
Knew
Beyond
Knowing
Became
Without
Still
Arrived
Very
Interested
Really
It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!
John Hughes
About
Ten
Ten Years
Knew
Since
Been
Years
Lines
Worked
Who
Actor
I knew I wanted to act from a very young age - from about nine, really - but I didn't know how to go about it. I had no idea. The world was a much bigger place then.
John Hurt
Age
World
Young
Nine
No Idea
About
Had
Knew
Idea
Know
How
Go
Very
Young Age
Wanted
Bigger
Place
Then
Much
Really
Act
I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.
John Hurt
Art
Me
School
Father
Other
Would
Would-Be
Only
Pursue
Could
Knew
Conceive
Academic
Course
Because
How
Go
Art School
Done
Want
Loved
Which
Paint
Actor
Thing
Career
University
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