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.
BEN ELTONKingsley 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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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