You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTONYou didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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 don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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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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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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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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