You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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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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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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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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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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