Charlie Brooker Quotes
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
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I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.
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The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
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We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
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It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.
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I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.
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The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
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At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
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Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
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A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.
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My top beauty tip is to drink lots of water. It might sound lame, but it works.
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All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?
