Charlie Brooker Quotes

'MasterChef' delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease.

Charlie Brooker

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• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Moment

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Earth
  • Conversation
  • Rise

• If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music
  • Together
  • Man

• I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• What our fans want, what our fans believe, what our fans are interested in is why we are what we are. But, nevertheless, ultimately we have to do the things that we believe are essential for the long-term health of the game, of the league, and of all of our franchises.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Why

• I'm intrigued by traditional Indian designs. They are so beautifully handcrafted, and the designs are so intricate and beautiful. I really prefer the Indian designs.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Beautiful
  • Prefer
  • Indian

• I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Movie
  • Makeup
  • Ready

• I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

  

  Tan Le
  • Wish
  • Brain
  • I Wish

• There is a lot of kissing in 'Boeing-Boeing.' A lot! And not pecks on the cheek or lips - although there's some of that, too - but full-on, farcical lip locks. My poor husband. He definitely wasn't prepared for as much smooching as there is.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Husband

• Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Different
  • Funny
  • Cool

• I love Victoria's Secret and the brand, and I'm passionate about Victoria's Secret commercials, too.

  

  Adriana Lima

• Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and the American people. Comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen U.S. security and boost economic growth.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Trying

• I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Writing
  • Romantic

• It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Dream
  • Weird

• You don't need to have Asperger's to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on inconsequential chit-chat to grease the wheels of day-to-day life.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Grease

• I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

  

  Peter Gallagher Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Truck

• Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • World
  • Mean
  • Hands

• I would really like to take on something that really surprises people and shows that I want to be taken seriously as an actress. Also, creatively speaking, that sounds really fun.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • People
  • Fun
  • Taken

• I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Life
  • Hope

• 'MasterChef' delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Grease