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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.

Ben Elton

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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Being Love Lucky Writing
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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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Natural People Waiting
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Hippie Self Thinking
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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Silly Stupid Wish
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
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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Book Key
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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Doe Real World
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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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Advice Looks Novel

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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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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