Charlie Brooker Quotes
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All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?
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Humans will always babble. If someone wants to tweet that they can't decide whether to wear blue socks or brown socks, then fair enough. But when sharing becomes automated, I get the heebie-jeebies.
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I do think that it's a dysfunctional relationship between columnists and commentators, because they both seem to hate each other, like a terrible marriage.
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That's certainly made me think. It's made me think I don't want a television any more.
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If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.
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I'm quite hardcore on this. I think every psychic and medium in this country belongs in prison. Even the ones demented enough to believe in what they're doing. In fact, especially them. Give them windowless cells and make them crap in buckets.
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Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.
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Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they're doing for the money.
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If I ran a national burger franchise - which I don't - I'd make it a rule that no two customers can be greeted with precisely the same words and that every third customer must be grossly insulted as a matter of course. Just to keep the atmosphere nice and lively. And to keep the staff laughing.
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Videogames are probably my first love.
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Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. It's 'Pokemon Go' for the heart.
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I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.
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Online, you play at being yourself.
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The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
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My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.
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I liked 'Making A Murderer,' 'Master of None.' 'Stranger Things' I watched along with everyone else in the world. 'Narcos,' I really liked 'Narcos' a lot.
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I've never lost that freelance mentality. You can't take a holiday because you're worried the work will dry up.
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It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.
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I've got no attention span.
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I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.
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Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.
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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.
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Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.
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What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.