The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
BEN ELTONThe 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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 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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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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For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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 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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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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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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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