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I loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice.


Rowan Atkinson

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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