Charlie Brooker Quotes
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.
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Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
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People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.
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Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
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Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.
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I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
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Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child.
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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'Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.'
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.
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There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.
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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
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The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.
