I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
BEN ELTONI see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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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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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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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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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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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