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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

Ben Elton

I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
BEN ELTON

Dull People Project
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.
BEN ELTON

Doe Real World
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.
BEN ELTON

Book Brother Writing
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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
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 it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
BEN ELTON

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 find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTON

Facts Giving Kind
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.
BEN ELTON

Baseball Oasis Vote
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’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
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
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
BEN ELTON

Leader Looks Trying
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 exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

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