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.
BEN ELTONI find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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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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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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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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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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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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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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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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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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