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.
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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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 exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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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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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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