I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.


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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas ...
KATE ATKINSON
American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were th...
RICK ATKINSON
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very sm...
RICK ATKINSON
Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I...
ANTHONY ATKINSON
It was just a smart move for me, based on me and my family huddling together and doing what was best...
ANTHONY ATKINSON
Those guys are so athletic. They are one of the most athletic teams I've ever played against.
ANTHONY ATKINSON
Our defensive motto is ? get in it and don't get out of it. When (the other team gets) uncomfortable...
ANTHONY ATKINSON
I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life,...
RICK ATKINSON
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should firs...
RICK ATKINSON
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles sout...
RICK ATKINSON
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing ...
KATE ATKINSON
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be v...
KATE ATKINSON
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest...
RICK ATKINSON
There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month o...
RICK ATKINSON
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f...
RICK ATKINSON
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apa...
BROOKS ATKINSON
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point ...
BROOKS ATKINSON
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
BROOKS ATKINSON
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God...
BROOKS ATKINSON
The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or...
BROOKS ATKINSON
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of t...
BROOKS ATKINSON
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t...
BROOKS ATKINSON
I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.'...
BILL ATKINSON
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time...
BROOKS ATKINSON
It will be very hard for anyone to pigeonhole Allen as belonging to any one faction of the Republica...
FRANK ATKINSON
George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as gover...
FRANK ATKINSON
To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and tea...
FRANK ATKINSON
This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election.
FRANK ATKINSON
When I charged a round in the chamber, he got down real fast,
FRANK ATKINSON
It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English.
FRANK ATKINSON
We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many...
JANICE ATKINSON
If we are able to conduct it by mail, there would be no polling locations. Running parallel election...
JANICE ATKINSON
Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough ma...
JANICE ATKINSON
To be honest, we've had no complaints from people with disabilities about being unable to vote with ...
JANICE ATKINSON
Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the f...
JACOB ATKINSON
Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical id...
JACOB ATKINSON
Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain
JACOB ATKINSON
Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything...
JACOB ATKINSON
Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I...
JACOB ATKINSON
He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the univ...
JACOB ATKINSON
Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart....
JACOB ATKINSON
Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure.
JACOB ATKINSON
Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and when they...
JACOB ATKINSON
It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets ...
JACOB ATKINSON
I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-c...
ALIA ATKINSON
This was our first time.
JOHN ATKINSON
I checked with our infectious disease specialist and we've not had any cases here yet. So far so goo...
JOHN ATKINSON
They simply enjoyed every day together. The most special times for them were in the morning, sitting...
JOHN ATKINSON
Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to ki...
JOHN ATKINSON
We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life...
JOHN ATKINSON
We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home r...
JOHN ATKINSON