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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

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
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 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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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
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
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
And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. 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 Lecture Paper Read
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
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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 didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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
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
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
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

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