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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This country is not built on one culture alone. We all make up this industry.
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Abu Musab al-Suri is someone I got to know pretty well because he's a Syrian. Very bright guy, lived in London. He actually was the person who took myself and correspondent Peter Arnett and the cameraman, Peter Juvenal, to interview bin Laden for his first TV interview.
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It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
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There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising.
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Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
