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.
BEN ELTONLeaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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