Armando Iannucci Quotes
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.
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These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.
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The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.
