Charlie Brooker Quotes
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat waiters and shop assistants, especially when you are one.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
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I'm a bit of a control freak.
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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
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When we did 'The Jewel In The Crown,' we filmed in India first so the actors had an idea of what the heat was like, what it did to you - it slows you down; it's weighty: the air that you breathe is full of humidity. You are aware of the fact that you're not in a studio in Manchester.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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I remember not having a hot water tank, so we had to use a kettle for hot showers. So, you know, we would put the kettle on and go have a shower, and then my mum would come bring three or four kettles in, just to heat them up. And it would take five, 10 minutes for every kettle to heat up.
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Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
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An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.
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You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat waiters and shop assistants, especially when you are one.
