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.
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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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
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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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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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 think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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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