Dennis Potter Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.
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For me, family comes over and above everything.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I'd rather be good than lucky.
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
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The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
