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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.

Ben Elton

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
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
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
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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Century Over Worst
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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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Mistake Risk Running
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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
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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Believe Groups Looks
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
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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Night Past
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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Done Made Want
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from 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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