"Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Struggle Quotes #Character Quotes #Adversity Quotes

“I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.”
“I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.”
“Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.”

Source : "The Country Wife".
“AdiÃ³s," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours." "Thank you." "Sank you." "Not sank you, SeÃ±ora Gregorio, thank you." "Sank you.”
“Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?”
“You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.”
“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.”

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

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