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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.

~Ben Elton

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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.

~Ben Elton

Topics: Could Feel Heaven Intense Love Made Marriages Obsessive Only People Reciprocated Strength Then Truly Would

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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

~Ben Elton

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I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

~Ben Elton

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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

~Ben Elton

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

~Ben Elton

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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

~Ben Elton

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I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with.

~Ben Elton

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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.

~Ben Elton

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Comedian

Born: May 3rd, 1959

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