Dennis Potter Quotes
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A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
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It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
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The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
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Nigel Barton: Eh dad, why do you always walk in the middle of the road?Harry Barton: I don't know.Nigel Barton: What do you think the pavement's for?Harry Barton: Dogs to poop in, by the looks of things!
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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
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Philip Marlow: You're the girl in all those songs. De-dum.Nurse Mills: What songs?Philip Marlow: The songs, the songs, the bloody, bloody songs.Nurse Mills: I wish I knew what you were talking about.Philip Marlow: The songs you hear coming up the stair.Nurse Mills: Sorry?Philip Marlow: When you're a child, when you're supposed to be asleep. Those songs.
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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
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Jack: A potential Cabinet Minister if ever I saw one. Dishonest in a way which seems embarrassingly frank. Upright when creeping. And dignified when at his most stupid.