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No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.
John Irving
Family
Me
Father
Older
Everything
Tell
Would
About
Only
Could
Adult
Knew
Him
Am
Cousin
Discover
Years
Than
Anything
Little
Who
Ever
Four
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
John James Audubon
Music
Every
Cares
Drawing
Hunting
About
Knew
Occupied
Fishing
Them
Naught
Moment
Cared
My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.
John Lanchester
Age
Amazing
Deflect
Ability
About
Had
Knew
Supposed
Talk
Mum
Things
Early
Early Age
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
John Lasseter
You
Jokes
Worse
Puns
Could
Deliver
Knew
Soon
Learned
How
Them
Funnier
The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
John Lithgow
Time
Learning
Chapter
Human Being
Long
First
Entirely
Knew
Almost
Sort
Gradually
Human
Being
Theater
Who
Actor
Career
By The Time
By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.
John Logan
Time
Job
Sunday
Bats
Given
Writer
Knew
Terms
Wrote
Sort
Does
Dialogue
Any
By The Time
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
John Lydon
Parents
Revolution
Wealthy
Having
Having Fun
Students
Knew
Always
Bunch
Just
Sixties
Really
Fun
University
I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.
John McEnroe
Speak
World
Brazil
Top
Airport
Someone
Something
Tennis
Had
No-One
Knew
Spoke
Said
Got
Junior
Any
Just
Turned
Then
English
Who
Play
Player
Portuguese
I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.
John Mortimer
You
Think
Born
Something
Rather
Writer
Knew
Like
Going
Curse
Early
I never knew you were supposed to push off of your feet when you walked. And I tried it, and I walked much faster.
John Mulaney
You
Faster
Tried
Push
Never
Knew
Feet
Supposed
Were
Off
Walked
Much
Your
I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
John Oliver
Knew
Wanted
Happen
Soccer
Player
When I turned 40, I invited Johnny Cash to my party, even though I knew there was gonna be 200 people roasting a pig and wild as can be. He didn't come, but the next day, I got a bowl of chili he'd made and a note that said, 'John, I'd love to come to your party, but that would mean I would have to leave my house.'
John Prine
Love
Day
People
Made
Party
Wild
Though
Would
John
Cash
Johnny
Johnny Cash
He
Knew
Invited
Come
House
Bowl
Pig
Said
Got
Leave
Chili
Note
Mean
Gonna
Turned
Next
Your
Even
I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.
John Prine
Me
You
Old
Made
Nervous
Recording
Before
Young
Extremely
Say
Out
Run
Would
Rather
Recording Artist
Records
Had
He
Knew
Know
Fella
Became
Hear
Than
Artist
Listen
Just
Want
Room
I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.
John Robinson
Family
Emotions
Important
Betraying
More
Knew
Unspoken
Like
Felt
Leaving
Than
Trying
Movie
Explain
Them
How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.
John Rocco
You
Heroes
Painting
Too
Approach
Similar
Similarities
Something
Had
Knew
Make
Deal
How
Cover
Question
Greek
Gods
Same
Jackson
Different
Wanted
Many
Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.
John Roos
Our
About
Knew
California
Obviously
Up
Japanese
Deep
Connections
Growing
Growing Up
As an American, you appreciate the importance of our security alliance, the importance of the economic ties between our two countries, and while I knew of the two bonds between our two people, until I came here, I didn't really appreciate how deep the people-to-people connections are between the American people and the Japanese people.
John Roos
You
People
Our
Security
Economic
Alliance
Knew
Between
Countries
Importance
Until
Ties
How
Came
American
While
Japanese
Japanese People
American People
Really
Deep
Connections
Here
Two
Bonds
Two People
Appreciate
At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.
John Searles
Woman
Age
Men
Brown
Knew
Look
How
Still
Get
Who
Her
I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.
John Stamos
Great
Character
Cast
Knew
Got
Show
Playing
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
John Templeton
Soul
Three
Doctors
Hundred
Hundred Times
About
More
He
Knew
Know
Least
Times
Than
Did
Children
Grandfather
Much
Body
Your
Your Body
Medical
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
John le Carre
Service
Intelligence
Secret
Station
London
Park
Knew
Occupied
Opposite
Tube
James
Little
Rooms
I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.
Johnny Bench
Me
School
Practice
Everybody
High
Would
High School
Could
Throw
Take
Knew
Catch
Catcher
Come
Like
Supposed
Until
Make
Around
Ball
Scouts
American
Legion
Pitcher
Pitching
Played
Watch
Starting
I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes.
Johnny Colt
Music
Me
Business
Conflict
Black
Journalist
Bass
Bass Player
Music Business
Spill
Gulf
Had
Knew
Journalism
New
Became
Left
Oil
Player
Started
Needed
I'm still that indie kid at heart. I'm still that guy who wrestled in front of 15 people and never knew he'd make it to WWE. I'm still that person.
Johnny Gargano
Heart
People
Kid
Indie
Guy
Never
He
Knew
Make
WWE
Still
Person
Front
Who
Mitch Miller knew exactly what he wanted me to sing. He didn't want me to improvise at all.
Johnny Mathis
Me
Improvise
Exactly
Exactly What
He
Knew
Sing
Want
Wanted
Miller
Acting is something I always wanted to do and knew I could do.
Joie Lee
Something
Could
Knew
Always
Wanted
Acting
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