Armando Iannucci Quotes
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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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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.
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I think there's good in everybody.
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Love is the core of everything - nothing survives without it.
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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'Miscast' is a family affair. It highlights so many different aspects of the industry in that one night, and it's a great evening.
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The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.
