Charlie Brooker Quotes
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
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I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
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What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.
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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
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At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
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I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
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I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
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It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.
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There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.
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It must be awful, being a homophobe.
