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Dennis Potter

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Also known as Dennis Christopher George Potter

British dramatist and screenwriter (1935–1994)

Person · Open Library

Works
32

Top works

  • Gofrit ṿe-tsori
  • The Vintage Book of Amnesia
  • Art of Invective
  • Hide and Seek
  • Waiting for the Boat

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States

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Listeners
98
Total plays
219

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Quotes

  • By the time I stood for Parliament I was already carrying a walking stick, and the combination of my illness and my sense of withdrawal from a belief in a kind of Britain I would have preferred to see meant that I was no longer satisfied with such a (political) role: it wasn't creative enough, it didn't satisfy me. I simply didn't fit the bill in the end. Although I was a Labour candidate I didn't even vote in that election. I was probably the only candidate who didn't vote for his party.
  • You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent, even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke.
  • My only regret is to die four pages too soon.
  • The blossom is out in full now, it’s plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it’s white. It’s the whitest, frothiest blossomest blossom that ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn’t seem to matter. But the now-ness of everything is absolutely wondrous.
  • Nigel Barton: Eh dad, why do you always walk in the middle of the road?Harry Barton: I don't know.Nigel Barton: What do you think the pavement's for?Harry Barton: Dogs to poop in, by the looks of things!
  • Harry Barton: Clever sod, aren't you? I expect they think the sun shines out of you down at Oxford.Nigel Barton. Up.Harry Barton: What?Nigel Barton. Up, dad. Up.Harry Barton: Aye, and up you, too!Nigel Barton: Everyone says 'Up at Oxford'. You come 'down' when you've finished there.Harry Barton: Well, what's this then? Does bloody Oxford move up and down the bloody map then?

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