#knew

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records. ↗

— David Johansen

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We knew that they would probably go after someone. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#go #knew #probably #someone #would

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#chicago #died #father #him #i

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artists #else #had #i #i can

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#after #away #could #go #got

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#came #games #incredible #inventing #inventions

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #collaborative #full #i #i always

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. ↗

— Marion Jones

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