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.

Ben Elton

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Beens

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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Groups Looks
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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Lecture Read
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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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.

BEN ELTON

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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators

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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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.

BEN ELTON

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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Brother
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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.

BEN ELTON

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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Being Lucky
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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Running
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

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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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Feelings
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.

BEN ELTON

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.
BEN ELTON

Beens
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed

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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull
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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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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Looks
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 exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Hard
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Gears

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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