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?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Manhood
  • Sensitivity

• It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Work
  • Same
  • Expression

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Beautiful
  • Question
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Women
  • Family
  • Drama

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• 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.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• 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.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Help
  • Powerful
  • Gun

• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Practice

• 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.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Generation
  • Walk

• 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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Man
  • Win
  • Puzzle

• Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Technology

• Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Woman
  • Smart
  • Where

• Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • She
  • True
  • Dance

• I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
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  • Book
  • Reading

• Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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  • Bad
  • Hope

• When I recorded 'Cooler Than Me', I had been singing for like, three months at the most. I was just a producer experimenting with my voice on tracks, and now I'm, like, a really good singer in a legit way.

  

  Mike Posner
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  • Singing

• I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Life
  • Good

• Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

  

  Armando Iannucci
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