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.
BEN ELTONI’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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I loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
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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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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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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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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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