Charlie Brooker Quotes
'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
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I'm not going to fly a million miles with somebody I don't know.
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A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.
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As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.
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'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.
