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Related He made everyone around him want to be better. ANDREW ARSLANIAN He didn't care if Matt made him cuddly or made him hornier than he'd ever been or even made him a lo... ANNE TENINO He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious... CASSANDRA CLARE He was always working a little harder than everybody else. He had that little extra drive to be bett... GREG BURKE He firmly believed in what he was doing, and you couldn't sway him from that. It was wonderful to ha... HOPE LUGO He had the most popular diet that ever existed, ... He was not just a doctor, he was ... CATHY NONAS He told me he was sorry about my son, and that he made a mistake. I told him that I understood that.... HARZEL TYUS And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: / (For those priests were made without an oa... BIBLE I am almost speechless. It is hard for me to even put into words. I guess my respect I held for him ... JACK SWALLOW He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great. SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great SAMUEL JOHNSON It was a tough competition. He made me punt better than I would have had he not been here. So I'm gr... JASON BAKER She hadn’t needed him to escape that place. But rather than making him angry, it only made him pro... D.B. REYNOLDS Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household wh... JEFF HILL The only thing that ever scared him was finding out there was something he couldn't do, so he damn w... JOEY W. HILL His athletic skills led him to become a combat soldier. He wanted to be a combat soldier and he knew... STEVE LEIBOWITZ It was once him and her, but she lost him and thought for a long time she wanted him back more then ... AMBER It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... CARSON MCCULLERS That pass to Antwon (Courington), the first touchdown, that was all him. I had a running play called... JAY JOHNSON He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI He made two good reads. He got it down to Joe. That's where Mike wants to get to. Not only be able t... TERRY STOTTS He's a very intelligent hockey player, No. 1, that's his biggest thing. He made people better around... MARK RECCHI He was erratically effective. That was the most erratic we've seen him in a while. But he made the p... WILLIE RANDOLPH I felt bad because of the kids and his family, but she was rarely there. He was really lonely. I mad... REBECCA LOOS I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was... RANDY JOHNSON That shows you if we could have had him at full tilt how much better we would have played. We weren'... PERRY WATSON I was praying for him. Thank God he made it. RASHAD ANDERSON If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, ... DAVE BARRY She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradicto... NICHOLAS SPARKS He was awesome. Third period, he made save after save after save. It's not surprising, but it was hu... BRIAN ROLSTON How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that... BROCK CLARKE I shared with him I understood the dilemma he was in — that no matter what decision he made, his o... DAN PATRICK Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never le... D.H. LAWRENCE Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never le... D.H. LAWRENCE Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him;... L. FRANK BAUM I expected a better showing from him. He got tired. He was exhausted when he came back, but he recov... STEVE ASMUSSEN He was probably better than we saw him over in Kansas City. He was good. BUDDY BELL My horse had to make up a lot of ground. It was unbelievable, the ground we had to make up. If that ... CALVIN BOREL He would joke around, make a few friends, pretend that nothing bothered him, but he always ended up ... RICK RIORDAN He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for... LEO TOLSTOY What would have prevented him from hitting him if that was the case? If he was trying to hit him, he... CHARMEL WARREN He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with tr... ORSON SCOTT CARD No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi... WOODROW WILSON I was going to check him, and he made a move. 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HERON GREY He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... J.K. ROWLING Everyone in Tel Aviv knows Yosl Bergner. In 2006, the mayor made him a Freeman of the City. Now he c... CLIVE SINCLAIR The MIT was a wake-up call for him. He just keeps getting better and better. MARK SAVOIA The park was the heart of the city. He had come to the city – and with a knowing in his blood – ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The one thing I said was that he made us better players, he made us better teammates and he made us ... RICK AGUILERA He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he ... WENDELL BERRY In camp we watched him and felt he was a good football player and he just gets better and better. GREG MARSHALL The thing that has amazed me about Tyson for four years now is that no performance ever seems to be ... BOB GATES We had three shots at him but he made a remarkable play on it. It was a remarkable athletic play, BOBBY ROSS We knew he was going to be good. He was very quick, he was really quick. One thing that impressed me... BILL CLIFFORD Tony was a little faster the first 20 or 25 laps of that run. Then we got equal and started reeling ... KASEY KAHNE I think he had a quite sort of ambiguous relationship to Holmes. It made him rich, it made him famou... JULIAN BARNES He made the city Athens, great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, an... PLUTARCH It was this that made him attractive to women, who liked the sense that he was not altogether manly.... VIRGINIA WOOLF We have a tendency when we're faced with great tension to get some relief by writing about it in a w... ERIC ROSENBERG It didn't have anything to do with him being elected. It wasn't something that he was taught to do. ... JIMMY JOHNSON Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that... SAMUEL JOHNSON He was sweaty at this time and that made it difficult for the officers to control him, AARON LEE Basically, we had to remake him. We worked on his delivery to speed him up and get him to hold runne... DON COOPER He was big enough. I knew better than to let him get a hold of me. ... That kinda took the fight out... BOB TATE I was the first one to the ball, then he made that cut at the last minute, and after that, we couldn... LEMAR MARSHALL He can be the Barry Bonds of this league. He's dominant and he can make everyone else better. They w... AL GALLAGHER That broke him up. That really bothered him. He felt he had to help. He was a good man. DAN KENNEDY I think Tommy is better than he ever was. I really mean that. He throws inside now and you just can'... BOBBY COX The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Miles saw him as a grief-stricken recluse, hiding from the world while he mourned his dead wife. May... TERRY BROOKS Marcus was remarkable. Great players make plays for others and he made everyone around him better to... BRANDON HEATH He always had it so easy. He was so much better than anybody else in high school. Now the competitio... WARREN MOON R.L., in real life was a lot different from how he comes off on the records, where he cusses and yel... JASON RICCI I saw him play as a freshman. I wasn't sure if he could play varsity. He didn't have the freshman ye... GARY ERNST The guy knows everything. You ask him a question and he knows. He's definitely made me into a better... JAXON MYAER I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to s... NEIL GAIMAN And that is why, when he finally did come across the street, I lit my cigarette with my lighter - no... ADAM LEVIN Walking away from him had been almost impossible. But she loved him too much to do otherwise. Becaus... KATIE REUS Justin always wrestled in the toughest weight class at states. It was great to see him overcome thos... BILL ROYER I made a mistake to go after him that day. I thought it was too important but I never said the thing... LANCE ARMSTRONG Miller made him change his voice. He was in the studio and Miller said, 'You can't sing.' Miller tol... WILLIAM GAMBLER Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time... CASSANDRA CLARE I thought he was OK, but he stopped breathing and they had to put him on a respirator. When I was ab... CODY COLVIN I did meet with him. I said he had made a mistake and that people were talking about recalling him. BOB DAY He was hanging his head, his coat wouldn't turn - it was almost like he was depressed, ... Richard d... BOB BONE Tyson was an interesting experience, just because he was a lot of fun to play, because he was the ty... JOEL RIET Whatever he had found, it made him a better person. Maybe that's what love was, finding the person w... DIANA HOLQUIST I think everything Daniel had to go through made him appreciate things more. He turned it into a lea... ANDREW MOORE When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew ... DENIS JOHNSON He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to ma... ILONA ANDREWS The fact that he made the players around him better. He was very unselfish, passed the ball and rais... ED HICKEY It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness wo... FRANZ KAFKA
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