You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
BEN ELTONYou didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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 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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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