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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.

Ben Elton

The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
BEN ELTON

Century Over Worst
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTON

Facts Giving Kind
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
BEN ELTON

Hippie Self Thinking
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.
BEN ELTON

Night Past
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTON

Difficult Morality Thinking
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTON

Dream Gears Wake Up
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
BEN ELTON

Done Made Want
People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
BEN ELTON

First Little People
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
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.
BEN ELTON

Silly Stupid Wish
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.
BEN ELTON

Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTON

Book Key
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
BEN ELTON

Beef Pudding Signature
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 ELTON

Nice People Thinking
You think I look like a teletubby?
BEN ELTON

Looks Thinking

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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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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