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I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.
Charlie Brooker
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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
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Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.
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Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.
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I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.
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In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.
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I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.
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[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!
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My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.
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As long as we've still got crazy what if ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.
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Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.
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