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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

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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Facts Giving Kind
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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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Advice Looks Novel
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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Night Past
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
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
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
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
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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Beens Comedy Instinct
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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First Little People
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
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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