Armando Iannucci Quotes

When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

Armando Iannucci

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: November 28, 1963

Topics

YourselfPeopleSpeakLanguageYou

I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.

Jerry Heller

CommunicationHistoryWarChildArmy

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Stephen Hawking

ControlUniverseYouUnderstandWay

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

Stevie Jackson

TogetherPeopleSpontaneityGetJust

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.

Tommy Armour

StupidIgnorantMostGivenEver

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

Ron Jaworski

MeLearnNewDoneMoreNew Deal

I realize I'm blessed to have the luxury of being a full-time writer. Not many people have that.

Rupi Kaur

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Michel de Montaigne

MyselfI AmRichCareWillOthers

Dubai is a safe place, and I never came across anything to worry about.

Mo Farah

WorryDubaiPlaceNeverAnything

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

Joseph Stiglitz

WorkEconomicsProblemInformation

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

Diana Krall

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I can sing 'Love Me Do,' very well.

Diego Luna

LoveMeLove MeI CanWellSing

You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

Dean Norris

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