Armando Iannucci Quotes
Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.
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You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
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So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I’m sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does. -Lemony Snicket
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Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
