"Words themselves - the very material of our……" — Dennis Potter
"Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises"
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38 Quotes by Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter has 38 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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,…
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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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More Discourse Quotes
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on…
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of…
— Tony Campolo
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One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy,…
— Nick Clegg
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If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world…
— Eric Alterman
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold,…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is…
— Jacques Ellul
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
— Salman Rushdie
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live…
— Samuel Johnson
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it…
— John Steinbeck
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