Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTONAnd 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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 see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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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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