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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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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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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If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.
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The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."
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I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.
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I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian following. I love writing kids' music.
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Desperate times make for desperate songs.
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
