Dennis Potter Quotes

Everything we do has consequences.

Dennis Potter

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• I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Feel
  • Very
  • Been

• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Think
  • Change
  • Human

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Sometimes

• Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Feeling
  • Natural
  • Soviet

• Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Single

• Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.

  

  Kate Williams
  • High
  • Empire
  • 19th-Century

• Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Problem
  • Poor
  • Down

• We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Singing
  • See

• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Feeling
  • Matter

• Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Good
  • First
  • Good Deal

• I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happy

• I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Like
  • Doing
  • Guts

• Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Up
  • Right
  • Now

• I don't know much about my biological background.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Know
  • About
  • Background

• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wisdom
  • Healthy
  • Wisest

• My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Good
  • Lost

• It is less important, I believe, where you start. It is more important how and what you learn. If the quality of the learning is high, the development gradient is steep, and, given time, you can find yourself in a previously unattainable place.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Important

• Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

  

  Fabien Barthez
  • Small
  • Play
  • Sometimes

• It's fair to say that most of them have lost money.

  

  Eric Jacobson
  • Money

• You've gotta go for it, and go for it with gusto.

  

  Elizabeth Mitchell

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Way

• Everything we do has consequences.

  

  Dennis Potter