Charlie Brooker Quotes
Anyway, Big Brother 7: that was that. Big Brother 8 is scheduled to take place in the glowing centre of an irradiated war-torn wasteland formerly known as Earth. See you there.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
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My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.
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I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.
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In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.
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Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.
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Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.
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Anyway, Big Brother 7: that was that. Big Brother 8 is scheduled to take place in the glowing centre of an irradiated war-torn wasteland formerly known as Earth. See you there.
