Ben Elton Quotes

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!

Ben Elton

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AdviceLookUnderstandNeverMust

People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.

Joe Green

PeopleWorldCarePressureReward

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

John Frusciante

FriendshipCreativeMePersonHard

Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.

John Lewis Gaddis

ThoughtsHouseWhiteWayOpenTerms

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Jeff Bezos

ChangeDangerousEvolve

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Sophia Bush

HeartTimeBestTeenAmazingYou

All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.

Steven Pressfield

ResilienceThinkAdaptNeedBegin

Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?

Tom Selleck

AmazingThinkYouSuitLikeI Think

I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his hitting. To me that makes me really feel good. We've chatted over the years about hitting.

Mike Schmidt

GoodMeFeel GoodFeelYouRight

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Mitchell Baker

PeopleCreateMoreThanProtective

A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.

Brantley Gilbert

GreatPeopleThinkGoSongsOh

Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

LifeArtMePaintingGentlemanYou

Europe embraces new ideas in transportation like no other region in the world and is uniquely positioned to take the next great leap in transportation with Hyperloop One.

Shervin Pishevar

GreatIdeasWorldTransportationNew

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