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

Ben Elton

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’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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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Celebration Losing World
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
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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Natural People Waiting
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
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
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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Advice Looks Novel
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 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
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
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up

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