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.
BEN ELTONMy parents were secular. I am an atheist.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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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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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 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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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect 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 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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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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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