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Tony Robinson

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[Wikipedia] Sir Anthony Robinson is an English actor, author, broadcaster, and political activist. He played Baldrick in the BBC television sitcom Blackadder and has presented many historical documentaries, including the Channel 4 series Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History. He has written 16 children's book

Quotes by Tony Robinson

The work that I do doesn't make me feel uptight, It energises me.

Feel

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I believe that any politician has to be constantly challenged. It is very easy for the rest of us to seduced into…

Believe

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I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

Child

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Ancient barrows get cleared away. Legislation is pretty much 19th century. Global warming means there is an awful lot of erosion, exposing…

Archaeology

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I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

Education

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If I go to posh parties, I hover by the kitchen so I can get as many nice canapes as possible.

Go

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A lot of us saw Blackadder in terms of problem-solving - 'Did that work in that episode?' and so on. We were…

Picky

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Fifty one per cent of 'Time Team' viewers are not of my gender. And that surprised me, because I thought it'd be…

Fifty

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There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the…

Archaeology

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I often get very tired but I'll just have a good sleep and a day off and then I'm fine to go…

Day

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A naughty part of me thinks, how come Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny have all done really good parts in…

Good

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My job in many ways has been to navigate interesting routes around subjects people think are dull.

Around

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A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.

Could

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I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

Intellectual

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The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.

Ability

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The adrenaline of being somewhere no one has ever been before is, or at least not for thousands of years, is quite…

Adrenaline

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Time Team' is by definition very static. Once you're in that field and you've dug your trenches, that's it.

Field

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I was about 40 when I got a glimmer of the wonders archaeology can offer, and I want kids to be able…

About

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If you were going to protect Buckingham Palace, you wouldn't put a tunnel in halfway down the Mall. If you wanted to…

Buckingham palace

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Always plan, but never plan on your plans.

Always

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The great countercultural movement that we all know from the mid-1960s was epitomised by popular music. But within a few years another…

Birth

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Virtually all my conscious life I had been involved in theatre - I had been a child actor - but as a…

Actor

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I have a passion for knowing stuff.

Desire

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I am terrified of being pushed out of a plane at 10,000ft with my hands tied behind my back.

Back

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Most of us work so hard and live so hard. On the first day of the holiday I remain in work gear,…

Day

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