You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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 exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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