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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.

Ben Elton

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
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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Believe Groups Looks
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
BEN ELTON

Beef Pudding Signature
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Hippie Self Thinking
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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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Celebration Losing World
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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Silly Stupid Wish
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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Mistake Risk Running
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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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Book Brother Writing
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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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Nice People Thinking
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
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

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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