I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
BEN ELTONI 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from 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 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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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