Ben Elton Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

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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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• 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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• 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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Ben Elton (12)

Birth:	3rd May, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Comedian

About

Benjamin Charles Ben Elton is an English-Australian comedian, author, playwright and director. He was the leader of the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as also a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV. He was a high-profile frontman of 1980s left-wing political satire. Since then he has published thirteen novels and more lately become known for writing the musical We Will Rock You 2002 and Love Never Dies 2010, the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera.

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