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There 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.

Ben Elton

I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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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Beens Comedy Instinct
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTON

Facts Giving Kind
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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Advice Looks Novel
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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Believe Groups Looks
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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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Blood Heart Men
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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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Love Memorable People
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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Century Over Worst
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.
BEN ELTON

Night Past
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTON

Book Key

There 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.

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