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Dennis Potter has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all…
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
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Everything we do has consequences.
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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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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
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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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Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
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If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
— Neville Marriner
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In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres…
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If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self…
— Mohsin Hamid
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I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling…
— Dennis Potter
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Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
— Mary Doria Russell
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We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development…
— Ann Macbeth
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