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.
BEN ELTONFor 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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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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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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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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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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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 appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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