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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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country.
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Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
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I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
