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Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

Ben Elton

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
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 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
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
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 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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Nice People Thinking
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
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
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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
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
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
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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Silly Stupid Wish

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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