"Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.“


-Rowan Atkinson

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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

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