Frases de Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter foi um dramaturgo inglês bastante controverso, cuja obra mais conhecida é The Singing Detective. Seus aclamados trabalhos televisivos misturavam fantasia e realidade, pessoal e social. Gostava bastante de usar temas e imagens da cultura popular.

Seu pai era minerador na mina de carvão entre Gloucestershire e o País de Gales. Curiosamente ou não, J.K.Rowling, autora de Harry Potter, morou em Tutshill, na fronteira da Floresta de Dean. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Maio 1935 – 7. Junho 1994
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Dennis Potter: Frases em inglês

“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.”

"Occupying Powers," The Guardian (28 August 1993); the quote is from the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival (27 August 1993) and refers to John Birt and Marmaduke Hussey, who were then Director-General and Chairman of the BBC.

“Jack: You'll have to compromise, smile, concern yourself with your public image, measure your words as carefully as possible… and turn yourself into a dutiful party hack! [chuckles] Never mind, Nigel, never mind.”

Jack Hay was based on Ron Brewer, who had been Potter's agent when he was Labour candidate for East Hertfordshire in the 1964 general election.
Vote, vote, vote for Nigel Barton (1965)

“My only regret is to die four pages too soon.”

Final television interview with Melvyn Bragg (5 April 1994)

“Georgie Pringle: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.”

Pringle, "the class comic", has been asked to choose the bible reading for a secondary school class. He has a reputation for knowing "all the dirty bits in the bible off by heart," according to Nigel Barton's narration. The quote is from Ezekiel, chapter 23, verses 1-3.
Stand up, Nigel Barton (1965)