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.
BEN ELTONComedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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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 easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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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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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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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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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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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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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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’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 think I look like a teletubby?
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