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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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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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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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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I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.
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I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented. I try to keep with what I am thinking about that day - which changes too fast.
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We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.
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Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
