Charlie Brooker Quotes

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Charlie Brooker

Profession : Critic

Birth : March 3, 1971

I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and... it felt hard to delete the name.

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With 'Hang the DJ,' I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for 'Black Mirror.'

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When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.

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I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.

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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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The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.

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Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.

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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.

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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 didn't pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn't harm me in the long run, my failure to complete the course properly probably led me to spend the next six years or so coasting, unsure of what to do next.

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I'm looking forward to the 'Twilight Zone' from Jordan Peele... if anyone's gonna reboot the 'Twilight Zone,' then there's the man to do it.

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Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.

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I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.

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God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending.

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If someone doesn't respond to a phone call, I think they've died.

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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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What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it.

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Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

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'MasterChef' delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease.

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The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'

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