Ben Elton Quotes - Page 2

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• I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

  Ben Elton

  Writing, Being In Love, Lucky

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• I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

  Ben Elton

  People, Dull, Projects

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• And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

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  Signatures, Pudding, Beef

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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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  Advice, Looks, Novel

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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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  Mother, Race, Half

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• My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

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  Atheist, Parent, Secular

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• I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.

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  Baseball, Oasis, Vote

  1998 In The Radio Times, 18 Apr.

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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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  Done, Want, Made

  "Ben Elton applauds 'vibrant' standup comedy scene" by Matt Trueman, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• 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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  Brother, Book, Writing

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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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  People, Waiting, Natural

  "Stark". Book by Ben Elton, 1989.

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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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  Real, Doe, World

  Ben Elton (2008). “Stark: Satirical Thriller”, p.26, Random House

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• This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

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  Psychology, Special, Violence

  "The Young Ones". TV series, 1982 - 1984.

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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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  Running, Mistake, Risk

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• You think I look like a teletubby?

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  Thinking, Looks

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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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  Stupid, Silly, Wish

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• 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.

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  Writing, Police, Hot

  "Ben Elton applauds 'vibrant' standup comedy scene" by Matt Trueman, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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