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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.

Ben Elton

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.
BEN ELTON

Doe Real World
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTON

Artist Crete Reflect Society
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
BEN ELTON

Hippie Self Thinking
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.
BEN ELTON

Hot Police Writing
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTON

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

Criticism Easy Inspiring
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
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.
BEN ELTON

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!
BEN ELTON

Advice Looks Novel
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.
BEN ELTON

Baseball Oasis Vote
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
BEN ELTON

Fund Lady Old Pension
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
BEN ELTON

Psychology Special Violence
The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
BEN ELTON

Century Over Worst

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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