I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
BEN ELTONYou’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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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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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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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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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
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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 think I look like a teletubby?
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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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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