And I knew him warmly, for a few years at least, as an adoptive father.
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Bill was just a joy and I feel honoured that I knew him and to have called him a friend.
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"I watched the play someone wrote about him and then saw him on television and I complained to my girlfriend that no-one had done Clough in the way that I knew him, " says Hamilton.
"In the relatively short time that I knew him, I found him to be a vibrant, imaginative, enthusiastic and generous man, with a deep-seated desire to help his community and a boundless energy to get things done, " he added.
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Once I saw how far he was, I threw behind him and I knew I had a chance to get him out.
Even though my father left us when I was two years old, and I only knew him from the letters he wrote and the stories that my family told, I was luckier than most.
"I didn't expect to finish that quickly but I knew I could beat him because he had slow feet and slow hands, " Khan said.
After years of making strained excuses about why I had to be picked up by my mom at the exact same time every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, now at least one other kid knew about me the thing I suddenly knew about him.
But instead I enlisted his help, explained the situation, and knew I had him on my side.
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Ken and I were colleagues in the Senate, and I appointed him because I knew that he would be a faithful and pragmatic steward of our natural resources.
In fact, during the six years that I worked with him, I knew nothing about his politics either, except that he seemed fascinated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was president during his formative years.
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Without telling him why, assuming that he knew, I asked him to meet me for lunch.
Recently, when I checked-in at a New York City hotel, the manager was at the reception desk and I told him (I already knew his name through my Web explorations) the reason why I had made reservations was based on several previous hotel guests positive comments on the Traveladvisor Internet site.
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He admitted that, when he saw me coming, he had decided not to play him because he knew that if I saw him I would take him.
"I was in a state of panic, because I didn't want to leave him in the orphanage because I knew they didn't have medication to take care of him, " Madonna said.
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"I told him it was somebody I knew who had just stopped by to check on me, " Mr. Lewis says.
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He's a great manager and as soon as I spoke to him on the phone I knew I wanted to play for this manager.
I, of course, knew as soon as I saw him that Pipo had tracked down the wrong Borges.
Obviously I wanted to avoid him getting by because I knew I was going to get faster once the first couple of laps got going.
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"Deep down I knew I could beat him, " a jubilant Lowry said.
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"I just heard him speak and instantly, I just knew he was the one to lead the film, " says Freeland.
When he was first diagnosed, I asked him when he knew to go to the doctor.
He had a very strong trust in me, and he knew that I cared about him.
"I worked across the hall from him for more than 20 years, and yet I feel like a don't knew him all that well, " Pike says.
Mr Longmore, an Independent, said he had selected him "because I knew Barry's capabilities".
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As a professional musician, I knew Johnny Cash, worked with him a number of times and was invited into his home.
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