This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
BEN ELTONYou’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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 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.
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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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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 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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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