I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTONI try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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