I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTONYes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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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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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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