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Dennis Potter Biography

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.

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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Children, Human, Humans, Knowledge, Lose, Loses

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Filth, Television

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Airports, Fear, Illness, Saw, Travel, Understand

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Children, Poet, Poetry, Stop, Writing

The nowness of everything is absolutely wonderful. . . . If you see the present tense, boy do you see it, and boy can you celebrate it.

Boy, Boys, Celebrate, Nowness, See, Wonderful

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Believe, Handle, Know, People

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

Lazy, Names, Thinking, Writer

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Know, Knows, Mouths, Trouble, Words

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

About Yourself, Assert, Being Yourself, Order

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

Eden, Loss, Pain, Wonder

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

Helping, Helps, Knows, Shows, Things, Writer

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Children, Course, Creatures, Extraordinarily, Littles, Yes

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

Access, Dangerous, Emotion, Instant, Thing

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

Love, Obscure, See, Too Much

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.

Act, Create, Done, Things, Way, Yeast

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Let, Long, Looks, Past, Please, Sort

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Analysis, Fiction, Work, Write, Writing

Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same. ' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.

Animal, Choices, Important Choices, Political, Say

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

Age, Aware, Has Beens, Talent

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Embodied, Language, Metaphor

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