He wrote fan fiction and went on to write his own 200-page fantasy story.
Mr de Jong says that, although he is a fan of plain language, he had to deal with terms bureaucrats normally use.
But while he is a fan of free markets, the British think he is too fond of switching powers from national governments to Brussels.
He is another fan of an opt-out system, which he says has "every possible advantage".
Mr Mullen, who is married with a young son, said he had been a huge Queen fan since he was a small boy.
But he built his fan base the old-fashioned way: In 2009 he played over 300 gigs because, he says, he read that James Morrison had played 200 in a single year.
He later told the BBC that he was no fan of rehearsing, saying that it was only when performing that he enjoyed dancing.
He was a football fan, but admitted that he didn't know all the players in the league.
While he's a fan of infrastructure spending, he hasn't, as far as I know, called for a Roosevelt-style public works program.
By 1997 he had moderated his views sufficiently to be offered the role of sports minister - he is an enthusiastic fan of Chelsea FC - though he was never truly comfortable in government.
But he also tries to respond personally to every piece of fan mail he gets during the season.
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"He is just an avid fan of Worcester, so he is always interested in what is going on, and I fill in him with the details when I can, " Arr continued.
He is a big fan of classic sitcoms like Dad's Army and he loves cricket.
He fills a fan's cup, pours more into the open mouths of audience members, then tosses the bottle to the crowd.
Kurt Ling, 48, the CEO and co-founder of Pure LatexBliss, a Georgia-based mattress manufacturer, is such a fan he has adopted Mr. Jobs's signature turtlenecks.
Phillips said he is a fan of the trailer though, and views it as a great way to bring the movie industry and average people together.
He does, however, say he is a fan of his final project, Side Effects, which stars Rooney Mara as Emily, a young woman suffering from depression.
Acting FEMA director, David Paulison, made news last month when he appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee and said he was no fan of no-bid government contracts.
He is a fan of Bing's newly-released visual search interface.
Speaking on CNBC Thursday, meantime, Mr. Buffett said he was a fan of the groups management track record. 3G executives will closely monitor day-to-day operations at Heinz, he said.
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He became a fan favorite as well as a press favorite over the years, developing a public persona as an approachable, friendly guy in an industry that can be cagey at times.
And nor is he against everything Western: he is a fan of Sherlock Holmes (a character created by another former doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle) and his talent for making deductions from small observations.
But Mr Greenspan cautioned against the president's latest stimulus package because he thinks it is too soon to know what measures might be needed, and because he is no fan of large government deficits.
Bellamy stressed that he remains a fan of the Millennium Stadium, but that with current fan levels - far down on the 73, 000 average of just five years ago that made Wales the best-supported team in Europe - smaller venues must be used.
He is a diehard Lakers fan, to be sure, but he has also seen the human, off-the-court side of the family.
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Before we went live on the air, and figuring that he looked like he might be a football fan, I asked Ohlsson which team he liked in this year's game.
He was not the biggest fan of Clarke as counterterrorism czar and says he thinks it is more important to increase the pool of analysts and intelligence officers fluent in Arabic and knowledgeable about terrorism in the Islamic world.
He's also a big fan of island life, as he told Jamie Owen and Louise Elliott of BBC Radio Wales.
As the twin towers were coming down, he got a call from Susan Baumgardner, a fan, a woman he had briefly encountered 10 years before.
Comptroller John Liu, a Democrat, said he is also a fan of the bullpen.
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