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Ben Elton

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
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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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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Beens Comedy Instinct
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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
We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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Believe Groups Looks
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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Natural People Waiting
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
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Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension

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