Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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.
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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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 trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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