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 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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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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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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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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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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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