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Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].

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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
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Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of a war... it's not just a war story.
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While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.
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In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.
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One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.
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I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.
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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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In summary, our world is doomed.
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I can worry about anything.
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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'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.
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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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My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.
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Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.
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I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.
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You sort of perform your personality, I guess, to everyone on some level.
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I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.
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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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