Charlie Brooker Quotes
I haven't always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.
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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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I haven't always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.
