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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed

Ben Elton

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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Love Memorable People
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. 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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Book Key Lecture Paper Read
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
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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Advice Looks Novel
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Hippie Self Thinking
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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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Book Key
For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Night Past
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.
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Nice People Thinking
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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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Century Over Worst
I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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Celebration Losing World
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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Silly Stupid Wish

I see dull people as projects … to be reformed

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