Dennis Potter Quotes

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

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• The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Beautiful
  • Sometimes
  • Blush

• Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Service
  • Literature
  • Adventure

• I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Soul
  • Star
  • Thought

• Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Believe
  • You

• If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Help
  • Understanding
  • Mistake

• You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Think
  • Free

• I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • You
  • Places
  • Toilet

• Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Design
  • Responsible
  • Radical

• We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Proud
  • Week

• Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Inspiration

• Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • High
  • Cells
  • Solar

• And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Silence
  • Write
  • Own

• I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Song
  • Dance
  • Feel

• There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Literature

• De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Why
  • Fighting
  • Down

• Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • President
  • Just
  • Policy

• With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Words
  • Reading
  • Brain

• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Country
  • Humanity

• I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force.

  

  Keegan Bradley

• The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Offense

• It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

  

  Dennis Potter