Charlie Brooker Quotes
With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's a comic character. He's basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well.
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Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.
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I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.
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With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's a comic character. He's basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.
