I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
BEN ELTONArtists don’t create society, they reflect it
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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 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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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