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You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat waiters and shop assistants, especially when you are one.

~Charlie Brooker

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What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it.

~Charlie Brooker

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Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we've grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.

~Charlie Brooker

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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

~Charlie Chaplin

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What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

~Charlie Cox

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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

~Charlie Cox

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I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

~Charlie Cox

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One of the great things about playing a fallible superhero, one who doesn't necessarily have superpowers, is that the stakes are raised by the prospect of them perishing.

~Charlie Cox

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The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.

~Charlie Cox

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I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.

~Charlie Cox

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