"I could tell from his reaction that Andrew knew he had picked me out - I suppose if I'd taken it he'd have been the first Test batsman to be caught out by his dad!"

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Proper scared, I couldn't believe he had picked me up, all the way up in Leeds.

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He told me that he picked Orszag to run the C.

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And he grabbed me and picked me up and said, oh my God, you've got to do my show next week.

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But if he did it that way, he shouldn't of went to mama's house and picked me up and put me in a car, if he knows that was going to happen.

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He told me that he used to mix the lagging with a stick and then picked it up to spread it on.

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"I don't think he was picked to be an intellectual or strategic match for me, " says Rep. Thomas M.

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He picked up his backpack and came to sit across from me.

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"The wind just picked me up and moved me that far across my kitchen, " he said.

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He has wisely picked a part of this set of interwoven challenges that should have been addressed much more forcefully by me and others long ago.

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