I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
BEN ELTONAnd roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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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You 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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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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 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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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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