Dennis Potter Quotes
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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Small aim is a crime.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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Foreigners can only fight with success in the summer. We can fight during any of the four seasons, so we have the weather on our side.
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I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.
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I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.
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There's this sort of model that exists in Nashville that we think we have to abide by: You put out a record, and in two years you have to put out another one and have three or four singles. There are all these rules that I've just sort of thrown out the window.
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
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Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.
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I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough.
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If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
