This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
BEN ELTONIf 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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 Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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