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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.

Rowan Atkinson

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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Body Children Culture Essential Man
I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Human Nature Worry
The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
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
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Attachment Break Up Broken Heart Emotional Relationship
I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth
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
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
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature
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
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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Abuse Activity Atheist Deserve Human Incite Intense Outrageous Religion Teaching
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend

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