You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTONYou’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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 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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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