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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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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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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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