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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 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
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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
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
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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Baseball Oasis Vote
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
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
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
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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
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
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
For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Night Past
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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
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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Being Love Lucky Writing
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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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Mistake Risk Running
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
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
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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks 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
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up

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