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Ben Elton

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.
BEN ELTON

Beens Comedy Instinct
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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Done Made Want
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
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
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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
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Psychology Special Violence
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
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
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
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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
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
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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Silly Stupid Wish
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
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
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 think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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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Doe Real World
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
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
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

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