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.
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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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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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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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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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 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 think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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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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