You think I look like a teletubby?
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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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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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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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