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.
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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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 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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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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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I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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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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And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. 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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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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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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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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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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