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Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
Broadcaster
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[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.
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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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At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.
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In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.
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My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.
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[My parents when I was a kid] would go, It's a nice hot day. Why are you inside watching the TV? And you go, Well, 'cause it's better?
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What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.
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I can worry about anything.
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Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.
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My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.
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The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.
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I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.
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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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I've always had a bad attention span.
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I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.
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The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.
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I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, This room's quite rectangular, isn't it? I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels
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We take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokémon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, Oh, okay.
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We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to the crazy blonde hair. Then Mayor of London, now Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson was widely seen as a cartoonish oaf and that made him strangely undentable as a politician. No one could land a blow on him because he was already ridiculous.
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I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be an idiot. And suddenly, when they're all in one space, I don't know who I am.
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