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!
BEN ELTONLeaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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 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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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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