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.
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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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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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