Charlie Brooker Quotes
We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
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It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
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To lead people walk behind them.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.
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My mum wanted me to go to university.
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Baseball is just my job.
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Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.
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'FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.
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I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
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I've been up the coast of St-Barts, playing with spidermonkies, tripping on acid. Changed my whole perspective on shit.
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I've been given this amazing platform as an Olympic athlete, and there are so many people out there who don't feel like their voice is being heard. I feel it's my responsibility to speak out on issues that are important.
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I know I must live in France, but I don't want to cut myself off from America. France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that's why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it's like shouting in a forest. There's no echo.
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If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.
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A little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'
