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Ben Elton Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: May 3, 1959

Topics

Love Writing Being In Love Lucky

In the same way you pick idly at chips, promising this is literally your last one, you may be in a relationship that you know isn't going anywhere, but you're hungry for love, and it feels less frightening than nothing.

Love Relationship You Know Nothing

I think I've been quite lucky in that I haven't had to make too many changes to myself. Obviously, there have been adaptations and things that I've altered, but I haven't changed completely. I've stayed myself.

Myself Think Lucky Changes Things

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

Good Yourself Sympathy Learn Look

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

Me Will Talk Awards Like Whoa

Sting was one of my first and biggest influences. One night in North Carolina, when I reached out and touched his shoulder, he had the face paint on, and I didn't know why, but I loved it. I wanted to be just like him, and I was only 11 years old.

Night Face Loved Know Why Shoulder

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

Fear Art Best Always Without Tried

Radical feminism is still threatening.

Feminism Radical Still Threatening

The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

Lucas Papademos

Financial Country Prosperity Driver

I think complacency is what you allow it to be.

Complacency Think You Allow I Think

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Sports Time Team Win Detroit More

I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the same, and I'm not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there's definitely an element that is lost, for sure.

Music Internet Walking Interesting

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

Arianna Huffington

Quality Promises Horizon Solidarity

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