Dennis Potter Quotes
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.
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The world is no longer against us.
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I voted last week, and everything I voted for was defeated. I voted for less police station money and against adding more courtrooms. The guy I voted for, a congressman, lost big time because he's totally anti-military. He wanted to cut the CIA budget! He's really cool. But he lost.
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I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.
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Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?
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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
