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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I met older actresses who never married, never had children. That's not for me.
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If you want to feel a certain way, feel it now.
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I do believe at some point in time everyone will be genotyped at birth.
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Dar’st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?
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It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
