Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONThere 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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