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.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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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.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty
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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.
Hanya Yanagihara
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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.
Ted Koppel
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
Ted Shackelford
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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.
Kara Hayward
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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.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens
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I never lie to my fans.
Becky G
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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.
Ted Rall
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
Laura Dekker
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
Sally Ride
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
Caitriona Balfe
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
Yeardley Smith
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
Edgard Varese
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The Copts - the only branch of the Christian Church which was thoroughly integrated into the Orient! But then your good Bishop of Salisbury openly said he considered these oriental Christians as worse than infidels, and your Crusaders massacred them joyfully.
Lawrence Durrell
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
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The outlaw uses the knife to separate the persona from the self. The outlaw uses the warrior’s sword to cut through his own character armor to destroy the defense mechanisms that have kept him imprisoned within the citadel of personality and role.
Sam Keen
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Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
S. M. Stirling
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I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.
Emmy Rossum
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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Dennis Potter