I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTONIf 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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 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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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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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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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’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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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