Armando Iannucci Quotes
Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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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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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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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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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.
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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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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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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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I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
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The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
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Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
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When I first meet a girl, I have some questions I go through if I'm interested in her. Like, if she's a good-looking girl, and I figure out right away that she doesn't read, that's a dealbreaker for me.
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Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
