I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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 know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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