Ben Elton Quotes
11 Ben Elton quotes:
"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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"The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value."
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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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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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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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"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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"Most of my work isn't directly autobiographical. It tends to be an amalgam of things I've seen and heard and thought and conversations I've had."
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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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"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."
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"No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi."
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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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