Karzai was (for once) telling the truth.
I remember this old guy once telling me, "To thine own self be true".
"My shoulders aren't that big," I remembered him once telling me.
I tried once, telling a boss I had a mental disorder and he freaked out.
Fluhr-Gates recalled once telling another reporter that the most expensive item sold at Michael's was an $18,000 handbag.
I remember a student once telling me one of his characters had "no redeeming qualities at all".
And then I remembered Laurence Olivier once telling me that he used to use his voice to create emotion.
Mrs. Thomas recalled her mother once telling her: "Funerals have gone too far; they're just a big money-making job.
On screen, in print and in person, he delighted in being anti-PC, once telling a Guardian female executive that her sandals were "lesbian shoes".
He regaled Logan and Tyler with stories about their dad, once telling them that Sergeant McCoy had played soccer with young Iraqi boys.
Mason, a keen fly fisher, believed in using journalists, once telling me, for the Guardian diary column, of a fishing trip to Fermanagh.
