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Mel: "me taking responsibility" and "to sort of put anything off of me"

"We're talking about me right now, and me taking responsibility for my words and actions, and I'm certainly not going to use him to sort of put anything off of me. It isn't the explanation for what happened that night. It isn't. It has nothing to do with it. That's in my own heart." - […]

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Jimmy: "me doing anything weird"

"My girlfriend gets mad at me every once in a while, but it's not usually based on me doing anything weird." - Jimmy Kimmel, in OK Weekly, about his relationship with Sarah Silverman

Jimmy has made an error in pronoun case: he has used an objective pronoun before a gerund ("doing"). When a noun or pronoun […]

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Good job! Kevin's possessive.

"No matter what anybody says about my being a father, they have no idea how I am with my kids. That's my number one priority - my children." - Kevin Federline in Life and Style
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David: "me being a God"

"I Google myself. This morning it said, 'References to David Hasselhoff: 7,333,600' - everything from me being a God to being the Antichrist. I actually read it and believed it. I started thinking, 'Maybe I am the Antichrist.'" - David Hasselhoff
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Jessica: "Me being involved and being an actor"

"Me being involved and being an actor, not really a comedian — but I'm doing comedic stuff — I think it just makes it feel a little different. I'm not a TV personality." - Jessica Alba, on hosting the MTV Movie Awards
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