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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.

Rowan Atkinson

A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Cow Devil Life Path
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny
Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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Entertainment Family Goodness Indeed Lord
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Actor Television
To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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Ability Beautiful Inspirational Need Performance Skill Success
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Chance Success
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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Expression Home Silence
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Be Yourself Deep Finding Funny Man Natural
I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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Actor Attitude Particular People Play
For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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Fantastic Joke Praise Quite Religious Ridiculous
The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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Decent Difficult Interesting Job Man Ordinary Task
I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Criticism Film
Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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Funny Lecture Man Right Sarcastic Want
Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Car Problem Wonderful
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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Character Comedy Play Sense Thinking
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Attachment Break Up Broken Heart Emotional Relationship
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner

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