Dennis Potter Quotes
Jack: I once had a candidate who was deeply concerned about the moral issues raised by myxomatosis. 'Look mate,' I said, 'Rabbits, as far as I'm aware, haven't yet had the vote.' Mind you, I'm an animal lover, too, you know. I've always advocated that the party that introduced family allowances for dogs would sweep the country. And it'll come, it'll come.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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People trash talk me.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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I believe in rituals.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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Jack: I once had a candidate who was deeply concerned about the moral issues raised by myxomatosis. 'Look mate,' I said, 'Rabbits, as far as I'm aware, haven't yet had the vote.' Mind you, I'm an animal lover, too, you know. I've always advocated that the party that introduced family allowances for dogs would sweep the country. And it'll come, it'll come.
