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

Ben Elton

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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Hot Police Writing
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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Book Key
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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Blood Heart Men
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
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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Love Memorable People
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
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
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
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
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence

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