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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed

Ben Elton

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
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
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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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Being Love Lucky Writing
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
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
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother 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
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
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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

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