Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
BEN ELTONI’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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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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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 loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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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