The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
BEN ELTON
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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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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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People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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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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I loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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