Armando Iannucci Quotes
The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
A different language is a different vision of life.
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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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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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I would say there is probably a little bit of me in each character. But Purrscilla is a lot like me because she is very into glam and glitz and jewelry and everything very girly. And some of the jewelry in the illustration is even my own jewelry. But I'm not a cat fan - that's the only thing! I'm a dog person.
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You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.
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To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.
