Charlie Brooker Quotes

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Charlie Brooker

Profession : Critic

Birth : March 3, 1971

When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Charlie Brooker

Youth fare aside, I have generally always been interested in what's going on culturally.

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People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.

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People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.

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Online, you play at being yourself.

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My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

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Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.

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Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.

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It must be awful, being a homophobe.

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People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.

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My career path is like crazy paving - it goes all over the place.

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I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

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The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

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'MasterChef''s preliminary stages deliver just the right level of almost-drama for viewers feeling shagged out after a hard day's fruitless existence.

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I remember when I realised, as a child, 'That stuff on the TV about nuclear bombs is real! Why isn't everyone running around shouting 'Aaarrgghh'? Why are people still buying bicycle clips?'

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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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I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.

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At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

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We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

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I'm not anti-technology at all, really.

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