I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
BEN ELTONI 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. 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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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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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 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 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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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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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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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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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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