Armando Iannucci Quotes
I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I love India.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Being the one person out there committed to not running negative ads - voters respond to that.
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When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands.
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Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.
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We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.
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Don't dismiss Auriemma and UConn just because their excellence shines on the female side of the coin.
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I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.
