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 anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.
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I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
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Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.
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I feel like the albums I grew up listening to - for example, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera - they all spoke about real stuff that was happening in their life and everyone else's life.
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The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
