Charlie Brooker Quotes
Amplifying body-image issues, profiting from anxiety, and employing virtual slaves in sweatshops are bad enough, but the fashion industry is also actively hastening the destruction of the very Earth we walk on. It insists on launching fresh collections each season, declaring yesterday's range obsolete on a whim.
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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'Not safe?' I asked, all innocence. 'Surely it isn’t illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.'
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Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best.
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You're not meant to do what's easy, you're meant to challenge yourself.
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Amplifying body-image issues, profiting from anxiety, and employing virtual slaves in sweatshops are bad enough, but the fashion industry is also actively hastening the destruction of the very Earth we walk on. It insists on launching fresh collections each season, declaring yesterday's range obsolete on a whim.
