Ben Elton Quotes

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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.
• I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
• The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
• You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
• The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
• I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
• 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…
• People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
• 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…
• I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
• 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,…
• 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…
• And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
• 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.
• I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
• I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
• I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
• I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
• My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
• 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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