Dennis Potter Quotes

• I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

  Dennis Potter

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Talent

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Goodness

• As a piece of literacy , Freud’s best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It’s a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criticism

• As adults, we do know more, but we don’t know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Adults

• Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Creatures

• Children can write poetry and then, unless they’re poets, they stop when reach puberty.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Poetry

• Everything we do has consequences.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Consequences

• God, I’m such a lazy writer – I can’t even think up new names.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Think

• I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Responsible

• I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illness

• I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Childhood

• I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obligation

• Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

  Dennis Potter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Across

• It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

  Dennis Potter

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Dangerous

• Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

  Dennis Potter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Definition

• Metaphor is embodied in language.

  Dennis Potter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

  Dennis Potter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Endure

• Religion, you can’t a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don’t believe.

  Dennis Potter

  Topics in Religion

• Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personality

• Television’s Mr. Filth: that’s me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Television

Dennis Potter (31)

Birth:	17th May, 1935
Death:	9th June, 1994
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Dramatist, Journalist, Screenwriter, Playwriter, Television Producer, Writer

About

Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. Beginning with contributions to BBC television's The Wednesday Play anthology series from 1965, he peaked with The Singing Detective, a BBC TV serial for which he is best remembered.

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