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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed

Ben Elton

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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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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Celebration Losing World
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 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
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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.
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Done Made Want
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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Blood Heart Men
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
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
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
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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Natural People Waiting
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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Night Past
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
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

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