My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
BEN ELTONI 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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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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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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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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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