Rowan Atkinson Quotes

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Rowan Atkinson

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My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Definitely inspired to keep on grinding, keep on going, keep on doing what we do every single year: Win games and put up numbers.

Rob Gronkowski

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Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Mickey Kaus

Soaps have a schedule where you have to be done in 15 minutes. With an hour show, there's no way to get off schedule. On a movie, it's a lot easier to go back and reshoot scenes. I wasn't used to that at all... taking the time to really make each scene as good as it can be, which you can't do on soaps.

Lucy Deakins

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Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts.

Little Simz

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I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.

Jordana Brewster

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Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford

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It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.

Brian Dunkleman

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Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

Clive Thompson

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When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.

Bob Shacochis

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I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

Bob Fosse

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In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.

Peter Morgan

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