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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators

Ben Elton

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
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
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
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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Done Made Want
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
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
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
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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Blood Heart Men
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
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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Doe Real World
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
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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First Little People

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