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

Ben Elton

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
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
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
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
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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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Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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Facts Giving Kind
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
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
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
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

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