Charlie Brooker Quotes

A lot of people think right-wingers aren't capable of being amusing at all. Not true. Mussolini looked hilarious swinging from that lamppost.

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• J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Director

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
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• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

  

  Larry David
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• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
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  • Existence

• I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Real
  • Speak
  • I Can

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
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  • Pink

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
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• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
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• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
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• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
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• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

  

  Manny Montana
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• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
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• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

  Nan Hayworth
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  • Growing

• I would be on the 'anti-reality' show. I can't stand reality TV. I can tell you one that I absolutely would not be on, and that's 'Dancing With the Stars.' If you ever see me on that show, just please understand my family is starving to death, and things are really bad in the Church household.

  

  Eric Church
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Death

• No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Pretty
  • House

• Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,But spare your country's flag,' she said.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
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• I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • People
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• A lot of people think right-wingers aren't capable of being amusing at all. Not true. Mussolini looked hilarious swinging from that lamppost.

  

  Charlie Brooker
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