I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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