Dennis Potter Quotes

• I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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

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

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

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

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• Everything we do has consequences.

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

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

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

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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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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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