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Dennis Potter

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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.


— Dennis Potter


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


— Dennis Potter


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


— Dennis Potter


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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.


— Dennis Potter


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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.


— Dennis Potter


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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.


— Dennis Potter


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


— Dennis Potter


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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.


— Dennis Potter


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Metaphor is embodied in language.


— Dennis Potter


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People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.


— Dennis Potter


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The serial was told using a non-linear narrative structure and as the critic Graham Fuller noted in Potter on Potter "as chamber-piece and identity quest Casanova strongly anticipates [later works such as] The Singing Detective. As well as being an intensely personal play for Potter it was his first foray in the use of popular music to heighten the dramatic tension in his work. His father Walter Edward Potter (1906 – November 1975) was a coal miner in this rural mining area between Gloucester and Wales; his mother was Margaret Constance née Wale (1910-2001).

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist screenwriter and journalist. Beginning with contributions to BBC television's The Wednesday Play anthology series from 1965 he peaked with The Singing Detective (1986) a BBC TV serial for which he is best remembered. This work and many of his other widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality the personal and the social and often used themes and images from popular culture.

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