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.
BEN ELTONBooks are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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 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 Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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 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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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