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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Ben Elton

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
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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First Little People
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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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Hot Police Writing
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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Done Made Want
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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Book Key
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Hippie Self Thinking
And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. 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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Book Key Lecture Paper Read
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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Book Brother Writing
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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Silly Stupid Wish
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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Nice People Thinking
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

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