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I'm looking forward to the 'Twilight Zone' from Jordan Peele... if anyone's gonna reboot the 'Twilight Zone,' then there's the man to do it.

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

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Short of finding a place on the witness protection programme, you don't get many opportunities to completely reinvent your life. Going to university changes that. Away from home, away from parents, away from anyone who remembers you from school, you can pretend to be far cooler and more experienced than you are.

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I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and... it felt hard to delete the name.

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The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'

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A cupcake is just a muffin with clown puke topping.

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We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.

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I do think that it's a dysfunctional relationship between columnists and commentators, because they both seem to hate each other, like a terrible marriage.

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If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

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Online, you play at being yourself.

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If the Walkman had, by default, silently contacted your friends and told them what you were listening to, not only would no one have bought a Walkman in the first place, its designers would have been viewed with the utmost suspicion.

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Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

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I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.

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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.

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God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending.

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At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

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I've got no attention span.

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Hopefully, some supervillain threat will come down, and we will have to unite as a species and fire our nukes into the sun or something.

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Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.

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In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.

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New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.

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I'm no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I'll emit an unbroken 10-minute 'um' through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.

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I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.

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People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.

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I haven't always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.

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My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

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Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.

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I'm looking forward to the 'Twilight Zone' from Jordan Peele... if anyone's gonna reboot the 'Twilight Zone,' then there's the man to do it.

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We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

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Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.

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Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.

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There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

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Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.

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I used to draw comics a lot. I was obsessed with 'The Young Ones,' and was massively into video games, although I was no good at them.

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Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.

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It must be awful, being a homophobe.

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There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.

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