Dennis Potter Quotes
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.
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Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.
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Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
