Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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 see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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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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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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