Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONAnd roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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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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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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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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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