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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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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I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.
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It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
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We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.
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I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.
