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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.
Charlie Brooker
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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
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I've always had a bad attention span.
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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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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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Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.
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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.
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Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.
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I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.
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I could worry that I'm going to bleed to death, you know, from cutting my finger on a sandwich packet, you know, if I sort of open a sandwich.
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