Armando Iannucci Quotes
Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials. I try really hard to do that, and brands really pop out to me if I know they're trying to be environmentally friendly.
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U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.
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I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
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Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.
