Dennis Potter Quotes

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Dad
  • Police
  • Roles

• Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
  • Past
  • Best

• Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Good
  • Long
  • Faith

• Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Want
  • My Life

• I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Different
  • Couple
  • Back

• I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Live
  • I Can
  • Outside

• My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Father
  • Small
  • Health

• I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Free

• How can we help President Obama?

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Help
  • President
  • How

• To act is to rest.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Rest

• Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

  

  Alan Kay
  • People
  • Believe
  • Sun

• Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • People
  • Learning
  • Dance

• My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.

  

  Emilio Ambasz
  • Up
  • School
  • House

• I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Interest
  • Boys
  • Involved

• Chicago has quickly become one of my favorite places in the world.

  

  Miranda Rae Mayo
  • Favorite
  • Places
  • Quickly

• I take his Theodore Geisel legacy very, very seriously. I know others may disagree because he's made such an impact on so many people that response to work becomes very personal, so people will have different points of view. But, at the core of this, I take the protection and the extension of his legacy very, very seriously. It's a very important part of my life.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

  

  Dennis Potter