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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed

Ben Elton

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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Mistake Risk Running
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
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
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
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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Century Over Worst
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
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
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
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
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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 think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality 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
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 see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
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
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
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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
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
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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Book Brother Writing
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 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
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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
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

I see dull people as projects … to be reformed

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