Dennis Potter Quotes
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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I'm not a romantic.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.
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This nation loves singing and loves acting.
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You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
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Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.
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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
