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 ELTONYou’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
More Ben Elton Quotes
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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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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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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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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