Charlie Brooker Quotes
If your home is anything like mine, it contains several rarely explored crannies stashed full of archaic chargers, defunct cables, and freshly antiquated gizmos whose sole useful function in 2011 is to make 2005 feel like 1926, simply by looking big and dull and impossibly lumpen.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
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Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
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Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
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If your home is anything like mine, it contains several rarely explored crannies stashed full of archaic chargers, defunct cables, and freshly antiquated gizmos whose sole useful function in 2011 is to make 2005 feel like 1926, simply by looking big and dull and impossibly lumpen.
