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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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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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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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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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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Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.
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All these corporations don't want their drivers to ruin their image, so you can't say what you think. You're basically not allowed to have a personality. How can you have any heroes if you don't allow personalities?
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My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.
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This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.
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Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.