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’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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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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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The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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