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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The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
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Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there's Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His popularity could cause you to draw some terrible conclusions about the state of mind of the American people. It helps to remember that Bill Cosby is popular, too.
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Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.
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What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
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Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.
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The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.
