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Ben Elton

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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Nice People Thinking
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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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Baseball Oasis Vote
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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Believe Groups Looks
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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Beens Comedy Instinct
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
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
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
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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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
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
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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Done Made Want
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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Mistake Risk Running
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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
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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Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
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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Night Past
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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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Natural People Waiting
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project

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