If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
BEN ELTONThe appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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