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“You lied during a prior hearing when you said it was cortisol that set your bracelet off,” the judge told him at a pretrial hearing this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025
When you said it, I was like, "Oh, you probably have a good guy."
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
Talk to me about that process because like you said, it was important to be able to center Vietnamese actors speaking Vietnamese.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
"In 1991, if you didn't like something you saw on Jerry Springer, you said it to your television. And it didn't hear you."
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2023
“But you said it was your fault that y’all had to leave, right?”
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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