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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it

Ben Elton

I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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Baseball Oasis Vote
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
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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Hot Police Writing
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
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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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Book Brother Writing
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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Facts Giving Kind
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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Love Memorable People
For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Night Past
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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Book Key Lecture Paper Read
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
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
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
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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Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
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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Done Made Want
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 see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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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Mistake Risk Running
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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Believe Groups Looks
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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Beens Comedy Instinct
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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First Little People
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

Artists don’t create society, they reflect it

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