"My advice to anyone adapting a novel is……" — Ben Elton
"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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37 Quotes by Ben Elton
Ben Elton has 37 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get…
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You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even…
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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…
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty…
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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…
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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…
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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More Adapting Quotes
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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
— Joe Barton
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
— Samuel Butler
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I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
— Paula Abdul
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
— Jackie Chan
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
— William James
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The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able…
— Roger Bannister
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Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for…
— Unknown Author
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Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide…
— John Beddington
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John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our…
— Michael Palin
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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