Ben Elton Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'
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I've really only had one (dream) since I got into this business at 13 years old, which was to be in this business forever. Once I did my first television commercial, I caught that itch and that bug. I want to be a part of pieces of art - as far as cinema is concerned - that people will want to see for generations to come. That's my dream.
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I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.
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Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.