Dennis Potter Quotes
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. … the press in its historic connotation comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
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I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.
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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
