I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
BEN ELTONThis calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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