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Dennis Potter Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: british
Birth: May 17, 1935 - June 7, 1994

Topics

People Endure Lead Corrupt May Deal

I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds to. I know that I could, but it feels very unnatural for me to strip my prose like that, in part because place is so important to me.

Me Voice Place Know Important Minds

The vice president can play a real role in that, in helping solve some of the biggest problems in the country.

John Hickenlooper

Problems Country Play President Real

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

Simon Conway Morris

Life Must Principle Dealing Identify

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

Rule Senate Governing Proper Uses

I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.

You Like Telling Cheaters

Deadlines are great for customers because having one means they get a product, not just a promise that someday they'll get a product.

Great Product Deadlines Get Someday

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

Donnie Wahlberg

Hard Image Up Stay Keep Chose

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

Good Time People World Socialism

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

Fear Money Fly Flying Better Early

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

Alicia Silverstone

Generation Whom TV I Came Came

Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'

Woman Believe Thought Audience Going

The only time I don't get nervous is if I'm doing a home club in L.A. and I know all of my friends there because then I play to my friends. When I first started doing comedy, I hated it when my friends came; it made me more nervous. Now I just try to make them laugh.

Home Time Me Laugh Comedy Doing

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