As he drove us to lunch and I drove us back, everything he'd told me about the skiff's getting close to the sea came into clear relief.
"It's just lying, " he'd told me morosely, shaking his head.
He asked me if I was looking for any work, told me he'd be able to pay me, give me somewhere to live, to feed me.
"In Germany he'd have been out within ten minutes, " he told me.
He told me he'd joined the Marines and was heading to Iraq the following week.
"He told me he'd give the money back to get back on his old team, " Wilson said Friday.
Once, while on a stopover in then East Berlin, he told me he'd visited the city's famed Alexanderplatz.
He told me he'd been thinking about the part for many years, but it wasn't the right time.
When I bemoaned not feeling like his princess anymore, he told me I'd actually been promoted -- to queen.
When he told me he'd been charged with spying I couldn't believe it.
He told me he'd seen a sow near the ranch's entrance the evening before, and was hoping for her return.
Having walked around it about seven or eight times, he finally turned to me and told me that when he was 23 he'd been forced by his dad to go through schooling, college and he ended up becoming a lawyer.
Another Libyan colleague here told me how he'd seen them lecture a group of older men they'd spotted sitting outside a coffee shop, telling them it was "inappropriate" behaviour.
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Doctor Ramahi told me that in London he'd simply asked for charitable funds from Essam Yusuf.
"My father told me if I succeeded, he'd walk around the world on his hands, " Oshima recounts.
Assistant Chief Constable Steven Thomas of the British Transport Police, who is now in Moscow to liaise with his Russian counterparts, told me he did not believe there'd be any serious trouble surrounding the final.
Just told me that somebody called her and he'd been threatening her, so I said well I'll be over there.
One of the richest, smartest guys I know in Silicon Valley, a jet pilot himself, told me the versatile 7X was the best bizjet he'd ever seen.
When Laursen, the Nature reporter, told me I'd been had, I was sure he was wrong and that I was friends with the real Rick Weiss.
"I'd been worried he was becoming a different person, and he did become one, " Mina told me.
"We'd like to see people not use the full toolbox of products available to them, " he told me this week at dinner.
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"I went to see the Killers in New York last year, and he told me he was thinking of recording some solo stuff, and asked me if I'd like to play with him, " he said.
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