Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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 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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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 exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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 see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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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 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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And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. 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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