Armando Iannucci Quotes
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How lucky am I?
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I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship – a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.
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I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.
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There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.
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I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
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The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
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I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.
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I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
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Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
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I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.
