Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potterwas an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth17 May 1935
Dennis Potter quotes about
people may excess
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
children humans loses
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
helping shows knows
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
too-much obscure
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
religion bandages wounds
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
art definitions
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
being-yourself order about-yourself
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
art believe people
I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.
mouths trouble knows
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
consequence
Everything we do has consequences.
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
british-dramatist mouths
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.