Charlie Brooker Quotes
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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When you turn on the TV, you hear bad stuff, all the time.
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When we first started, we wanted our music videos to be a part of the whole story, but it was never something that we would think about during the writing of the song. It would always be just getting to work with young, ambitious directors and screenwriters that would want to try something out.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing 'A Touch of Cloth.'
