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.
BEN ELTONThe worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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 exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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