Dennis Potter Quotes
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.
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When it comes to death, nature is much more cruel to predators than predators are to their own prey.
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
