My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
BEN ELTONThis calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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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 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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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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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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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 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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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