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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I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.
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I do films that I'd also like to watch as an audience member.
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The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.
