Charlie Brooker Quotes

I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.

Charlie Brooker

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• I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Forever

• A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Want
  • Me
  • Fall

• Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Up
  • Want
  • Best

• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Wear
  • Did
  • Van

• A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Art
  • Criticism

• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Friend

• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Thought
  • Design

• The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Crisis
  • Humanitarian
  • Syrian

• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Bored
  • Sight

• I just think political correctness is crap.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Just

• Nobody is going to hand you a music career.

  

  Cam
  • Music
  • Career
  • You

• I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Up
  • School
  • Comedy

• I'm a writer, not a genre.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writer
  • Genre

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Will
  • Abuse
  • Corporate

• Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Treat

• I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Music

• My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.

  

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
  • Life
  • Important

• I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Home
  • Weird
  • Exposure

• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Art
  • Creative
  • Mathematics

• I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.

  

  Lana Turner
  • People

• I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Weird