You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
BEN ELTONYou didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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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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