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Ben Elton

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTON

Book Key
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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
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
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
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
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
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 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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Nice People Thinking
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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Century Over Worst
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race

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