The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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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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