"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."

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Source : Dennis Potter, Melvyn Bragg (1994). “An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994”

Dennis Potter

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“It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.”

Source : "Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism". Book by Robert Jay Lifton and Richard A. Falk, p. 224, 1992.
“One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'”
“No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”
“I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.”
“For many years I used the pronoun 'we.' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone.”
“Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.”
“The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.”

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