Dennis Potter

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• You've really got to understand the pain Dennis Potter went through. -- Martin Wallace
• Coming to the conclusion that watching 80s Dennis Potter serials is probably not entirely suitable hotel faire -- Ian Pointer
• | Metaphor is embodied in language, ~ Dennis Potter -- Creola Jiroudek
• The strangest thing that human speech & human writing can do is create a metaphor, That is an amazing leap, is it not? ~ Dennis Potter -- Aadishwara Geddes
• Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.-Dennis Potter -- April Payn
• Dennis Potter called his cancer Rupert, after Rupert Murdoch; I wonder if Morrissey calls his cancer Mike Joyce or Judge Weeks? -- Brian McCloskey
• A Gina Bellman was Blackeyes and walked across Dennis Potter's screen. It's not the same. She's going back -- Peter Andrewartha
• A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew - Dennis Potter -- CB3 Communications
• Might switch it up to some reading in a minute... I've got a hankering for some Dennis Potter. -- Brock Doom / B-Rock
• Dennis Potter, said it best, natch: 'the people ...seemed warmer to me, & the accent's so strong, it's almost a dialect'. -- Sarah Franklin
• To love too much, is to obscure, and not see what is there. Dennis Potter -- John J Geddes
• 'There is no one person more responsible for the pollution of what was already a fairly polluted press' Dennis Potter on Rupert Murdoch -- Susan Press
• | Metaphor is embodied in language. ~ Dennis Potter -- Words For Writers
• Dennis Potter: The strangest thing that human speech & human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap is it not? -- Frederick L.
• The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. Dennis Potter -- John Welford
• Metaphor is embodied in language. Dennis Potter -- Coyote, Raven, Crow
• We started 2015 with Arthur Miller and Jules Verne and ending with Dennis Potter and Titus Andronicus - bring on 2016! -- Creation Education
• I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself. ~Dennis Potter, 1978 -- Artfull World
• Dennis Potter: "Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty." -- Dull - trending!!
• Dennis Potter said we should look back on our younger selves with tender contempt. Too tender, and not contemptuous enough. -- stefanstern
• Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage. By Dennis Potter -- John Sondak
• Just watched the first episode of Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective. That writer knows exactly what I've been thinking. New obsession. -- Sam Pryce
• Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage. Dennis Potter -- freeotis
• " You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young." Dennis Potter -- Gaurav Barot
• Some words may become weapons or landmines... "The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in." ~Dennis Potter -- Pseudo Cyd
• Is Dennis Potter completely forgotten now? -- Tristan Lofting
• Listening to this incredible Nic Pizzolatto interview about True Detective. So good I can forgive interviewer's ignorance of Dennis Potter. -- Ben Thompson
• Tracked down a copy of Dennis Potter's Traitor from the NFTS library. Very excited to see it. -- Mark Donaldson
• "The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in." -Dennis Potter, dramatist -- Daryl Shawn
• My only regret is to die four pages too soon if I can finish, then I m quite happy to go. Dennis Potter -- James Lee
• "The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in." -Dennis Potter, dramatist (1935-1994) -- Leonardo David
• The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they ve been in. - Dennis Potter, dramatist. -- Ray Goodey
• Told to me by a very well-known Scottish actor who was meeting Dennis Potter on set for first time: 'I fucking hate jocks!' said Potter. -- Ian Probert
• Well, that sucks. I am writing about Dennis Potter but most of the interview material on YouTube is blocked. -- Roz Kaveney
• The only thing I want to explain is how they got Dennis Potter to play the Smoking Bloke. -- Matthew Grey
• British TV desperately needs an original voice - there is no one of the calibre or fearlessness of Dennis Potter -- peter totman
• You just don't know . They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. Dennis Potter -- johnjvinacci
• Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage. By Dennis Potter -- bonasista kurnia
• That Dennis Potter quote about Sun journalists and how they face their families? That's increasingly how I feel about clickbait purveyors. -- How Upsetting
• It again demonstrates how far ahead of his time Dennis Potter was. -- David Bellwood
• Saw two people who looked uncannily like characters I'd created. One of them made eye contact. This is how it feels to be Dennis Potter. -- Steph
• "The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in." --Dennis Potter -- Matthew Black
• "I fear the time is near when we must save not the BBC from itself but public service broadcasting from the BBC." Dennis Potter 1993 -- Daily Marx
• "I feel I can write anything at the moment. I feel like I can really fly with it." - Dennis Potter, to Melvyn Bragg, when he was dying. -- Josh Weinberger
• Farage is like Albert Finney's cryogenically frozen head in Dennis Potter's 'Cold Lazarus'. Will it never stop speaking? -- Simon Barraclough
• The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. - Dennis Potter - Happy Monday -- Harry Kalmer
• "The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they ve been in." Dennis Potter -- Numero37
• The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouth they ve been in. ~ Dennis Potter -- DavesDailyQuotes.com
• Dennis Potter Metaphor is embodied in language. -- Quotes For Writers
• I'm probably being unfair lumping dennis potter in; he's at least a lot more subtle in regards the sex bit, but it's close enough -- joolsd

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