Through her work for NPR over several years, we know her as an established and respected professional journalist.
She balks when I mention it, but we both know her balking is politeness, not an argument with the truth.
Then there was Lena Headey, who we know from her turn as the beautiful yet evil Queen Cersei in Game of Thrones.
Because we know from her own recorded telephone conversations that Ms. Tripp has been in contact with the Jones lawyers for months.
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Arguably, without those concerts, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference would not have had the money to fight white supremacy, but we only know her as mother, wife and friend.
We respectively tweeted at her, letting her know where we had spotted her things.
Chile is a close friend and partner of the United States, and I've reached out to President Bachelet to let her know that we will be there for her should the Chilean people need assistance, and our hearts go out to the families who may have lost loved ones.
But we did come to know her in the early days of my campaign.
"We wanted her to know we wanted to make some new music and we had some great songs, " he said.
"Even if she wore a headscarf here, we know it is not her real self because she performs differently in other places, " he said.
We will never know whether her minority status contributed to her winning a job at a university under intense pressure to diversify its faculty.
We know that when his or her race, gender and other personal characteristics are detailed, those who see themselves as similar are far more likely to feel a sense of permission to follow suit.
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"We do not know what force made her exit the vehicle, " Mr. Kelly said.
"We know you want to talk to her, but she is young, she is inexperienced and she is not able to reply properly to all your questions, " he said.
It is an enormous loss, but I know we can rest assured that her legacy will live on through her family, friends, and the millions of people around the world who she touched and transformed.
Most of us have no illusions that Oprah has ever used a panini press, but her show and its producers give the impression that she would know what it was if we could get through her phalanx of bodyguards and ask her.
In the case of the Mississippi baby, we know she was exposed to HIV, had HIV in her blood, and that at least some cells in her blood were found with sleeping virus though we will likely never know if those cells were from the child or maternal cells that had been transmitted during pregnancy or birth.
"She ran her first race that we know of in March 1928, " Mallon said.
We know that the people who were in her house knew that she and her dog were in the house.
For example, we know naming a shooter amplifies his or her influence.
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We figured we should all know a little more about her.
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Yes, in real life we all know she is a committed humanitarian but on screen we still prefer to see her doing big action flicks like Salt and Wanted.
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"We got to know the real us, because we never lied, " White wrote in her iReport.
"We didn't know Geraldine was carrying such a big baby otherwise we would have possibly booked her in for a Caesarean, " she said.
We know all this because shots of Lohan and her cell phone accessories soon hit the Internet and celebrity magazines.
We know she likes to play turnaround nurse with her distressed companies.
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