Dennis Potter Quotes
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
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When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
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There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy.
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I started writing stories as a child.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
