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

• I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Regret

• 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

• But woman's grief is like a summer storm,Short as it violent is.

  

  Joanna Baillie
  • Summer
  • Grief
  • Storm

• Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Music
  • Men
  • Real

• Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And what about you?" This time, it was Callie who spoke, her own pent-up energy releasing in anger, and the men turned as one to look at her, surprised that she and found her voice. "What about you and your idiotic pland to somehow restore my honor by playing guns out in the middle of nowhere with OXFORD?" She said the baron's name in disdain. "Like children? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary, thoughtless, MALE things to do...who even FIGHTS duels anymore?!

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Men
  • Children
  • Energy

• Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Trying

• At times, I can be a slave to money.

  

  Jay IDK
  • Money

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

  

  Dennis Potter