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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators

Ben Elton

I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
BEN ELTON

Being Love Lucky Writing
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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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Believe Groups Looks
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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Century Over Worst
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTON

Facts Giving Kind
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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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First Little People
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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Nice People Thinking
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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Love Memorable People
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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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Celebration Losing World
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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Blood Heart Men
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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Done Made Want
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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Advice Looks Novel
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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Book Brother Writing
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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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Mistake Risk Running
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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Book Key Lecture Paper Read
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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Silly Stupid Wish
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
BEN ELTON

Leader Looks Trying
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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Night Past
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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Hot Police Writing
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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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Natural People Waiting

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators

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