I don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
BEN ELTONIf 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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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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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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