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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Ben Elton

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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
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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Mistake Risk Running
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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
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
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
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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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Being Love Lucky Writing
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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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Book Brother Writing
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
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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Silly Stupid Wish
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
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

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