Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONKingsley 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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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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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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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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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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