Dennis Potter Quotes
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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
Dennis Potter
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Author Details:
Type:
Dramatist Quotes
Category:
British Dramatist Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 17, 1935
Date of Death:
June 7, 1994
Nationality:
British
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Related Authors:
William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
Wilson Mizner
George Bernard Shaw
Tennessee Williams
Vittorio Alfieri
Jules Renard
Zora Neale Hurston
Alexandre Dumas
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Select Dennis Potter Quotations:
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
Dennis Potter
Everything we do has consequences.
Dennis Potter
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
Dennis Potter
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
Dennis Potter
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
Dennis Potter
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Dennis Potter
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
Dennis Potter
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Quote Keywords:

Across,
Hierarchies,
Ideals,
Jump,
Printed,
Word
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Dictionary Links:

Across,
Hierarchies,
Jump,
Printed,
Word
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All Dennis Potter Quotations:
A bad act done will fester...
As a piece of literacy criticism...
As adults, we do know more...
Children are very cruel, yes. Of...
Children can write poetry and then...
Everything we do has consequences.
God, I'm such a lazy writer...
I believe everybody is responsible for...
I did not fully understand the...
I have been aware, from the...
I think childhood is to everyone...
I was given talent, and if...
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of...
It is a dangerous thing to...
Just letting it out is one...
Metaphor is embodied in language.
People endure what they endure and...
Religion, you can't a handle on...
Some of the words and symbols...
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
That vision of a common culture...
The knowledge that we have about...
The loss of Eden is personally...
The more my work improves or...
The strangest thing that human speech...
The thing about imagination is that...
The trouble with words is that...
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is...
There's no end to the inventiveness...
To love it too much is...
You have to assert something about...
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