Dennis Potter Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
-
I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
-
I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.
-
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
-
I'm not a romantic.
-
I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
-
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.
-
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
-
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.
-
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
-
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
-
This nation loves singing and loves acting.
-
You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.
-
I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.
-
Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.
-
A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.
-
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
-
When the classical worldview was applied to social science, the dominant notions turned out to be struggle for survival, the profit of the individual, with at best an assumed automatic coincidence of individual and societal good (through Adam Smith's "invisible hand"). When the systemic vision inspires the theories of social science, the values of competition are mitigated by those of cooperation, and the emphasis on individualistic work ethos is tempered with a tolerance of diversity and of experimentation with institutions and practices that foster man-man and man- nature adaptation and harmony.
-
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
