I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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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 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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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