The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
BEN ELTON
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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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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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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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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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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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