Dennis Potter Quotes

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Dennis Potter

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : May 17, 1935

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Dennis Potter

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

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

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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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

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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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As a piece of literacy criticism, 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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