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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

Ben Elton

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

Criticism Easy Inspiring
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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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Celebration Losing World
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
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
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
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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
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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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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Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
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
I don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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Nice People Thinking
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

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