Top 94 Quotes About Potts
#1. Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
Enid Blyton
#2. The club supporters' old practice of shooting arrows into the air from their wands every time their Chasers scored was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894, when one of these weapons pierced the referee Nugent Potts through the nose.
J.K. Rowling
#3. Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms.
Elizabeth Rudnick
#4. It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.
Andrew-Lee Potts
#5. Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'
Annie Potts
#6. Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions.
Rolf Potts
#7. Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.
Rolf Potts
#8. I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.
Annie Potts
#9. The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.
Rolf Potts
#10. Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#11. I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.
Andrew-Lee Potts
#12. Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.
Rolf Potts
#13. Having an adventure is sometimes just a matter of going out and allowing things to happen in a strange and amazing new environment - not so much a physical challenge as a psychic one.
Rolf Potts
#14. If in doubt, just walk until your day becomes interesting.
Rolf Potts
#15. Pictures, even beautifully drawn pictures, that do not properly relate to one another in a narrative sequence do not make good comics.
Carl Potts
#16. I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.
Annie Potts
#17. I have no problem with god - it's his fan club that scares me.
A.B. Potts
#18. They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.
Annie Potts
#19. the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.
Rolf Potts
#20. a petition campaign called Work to Live. The goal of this movement was to pass a law that would increase American vacation time to three weeks after one year on the job, and to four weeks after three years.
Rolf Potts
#21. I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all.
Andrew-Lee Potts
#22. vagabonding is simply a matter of making work serve your interests,
Rolf Potts
#23. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope;
Rolf Potts
#24. I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came from theater, where, you know, it's impossible to actually review your work, so why would I bother under any other circumstances?
Annie Potts
#25. [...] we all die, and the length of our life has been set before the earth was formed. Sometimes God takes the little ones to keep the eyes of the rest of the family on Heaven. They will never forget where this road leads if one of their own has already come to the end of it.
Susan Claire Potts
#26. The world would be a healthier place if oral contraceptives were available in every corner store and cigarettes were limited to prescription use.
Malcolm Potts
#27. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
Rolf Potts
#28. I'm a chef, I'm a cook, I was created by this industry, and I like to think I'm giving back. But I'm not giving back because I can make a scallop souffle, I'm giving back because I can make compost.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#29. Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.
Andrew-Lee Potts
#30. At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice doesn't garner much attention in the frenetic world of mass culture.
Rolf Potts
#31. It is a choice, and therefore within the province of economics.
Jason Potts
#32. I can completely take a second World War gun apart and put it back together again thanks to 'Band Of Brothers.' That's always useful. I've got lots and lots of random skills I'll probably never need again.
Andrew-Lee Potts
#33. About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. British households are throwing an estimated 30% of their food away, too.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#34. Zamunda represent everything that is kewl and real about vagabonding ... being the person that discovered Zamunda (for independent travelers) during the research of my book, Vagabonding, I am happy to see a well written guide done by the boyz and girl at BootsnAll
Rolf Potts
#35. What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.
Rolf Potts
#36. In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap food.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#37. The divinely talented Adam Arkin. So underrated. Every time I do a piece and they go, 'You know, you need a husband in this,' I ask, 'Can Adam Arkin do it?'
Annie Potts
#38. Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become and the kind of friend that is absolutely irreplaceable. She loved fiercely and was adored in return.
Annie Potts
#39. They are spending plenty of time and money on the road, but they never spent enough of themselves to begin with. Thus, their experience of travel has a diminished sense of value.
Rolf Potts
#40. Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.
Andrew-Lee Potts
#41. The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.
Rolf Potts
#42. Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.
Rolf Potts
#44. I've just always sung - just always sung. My voice has always been my best friend.
Paul Potts
#45. It just felt really strange to be in demand
Paul Potts
#46. I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.
Andrew-Lee Potts
#47. You should view each new travel frustration - sickness, fear, loneliness, boredom, conflict - as just another curious facet in the vagabonding adventure.
Rolf Potts
#48. The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.
Rolf Potts
#49. Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.
Rolf Potts
#50. I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.
Annie Potts
#51. The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.
Rolf Potts
#52. In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.
Rolf Potts
#53. Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from
Rolf Potts
#54. The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.
Rolf Potts
#55. If you wander with open eyes and simple curiosity, you'll discover a much richer pleasure - the simple feeling of possibility that hums from every direction as you move from place to place.
Rolf Potts
#56. It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice, but of course, I don't hear my own voice as others do, so I don't know.
Annie Potts
#57. It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.
Malcolm Potts
#58. I think your travels get better when you stop showcasing your journey to others and begin to live it, quietly and joyfully.
Rolf Potts
#59. There is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to "do well" in the world instead of living well.
Rolf Potts
#60. It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
Malcolm Potts
#61. I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'
Annie Potts
#63. I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#64. Life is like a theatre, but the question is not whether you are in the audience or on the stage but rather, are you where you want to be?
A.B. Potts
#65. Being a vegetarian Buddhist would be a bit harsh to deal with in the kitchen, so I'm a Taoist, I study martial arts, and I don't drink or smoke.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#66. Sadly, the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" ("someday I'll do this, someday I'll do that") is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro
Rolf Potts
#67. Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.
Russ Potts
#68. To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
Rolf Potts
#69. Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.
Rolf Potts
#70. I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#71. When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.
Paul Potts
#72. It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#73. Those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.
Rolf Potts
#74. Neither self nor wealth can be measured in terms of what you consume or own. Even
Rolf Potts
#75. When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.
Paul Potts
#76. I'd like to be a cross between Bruce Parry and Keith Floyd. Someone with a sense of adventure who truly loves food.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#77. It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.
Andrew-Lee Potts
#78. I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It's something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I'm able to do it.
Annie Potts
#79. Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.
Rolf Potts
#80. Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are rarely the features that took you there.
Rolf Potts
#81. Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.
Rolf Potts
#82. My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#83. As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.
Malcolm Potts
#84. Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?
Rolf Potts
#85. Abortion and contraception are inextricably intertwined in their use. As the idea of family planning spreads through a community there appears to be a rise in the incidence of induced abortion at the point where the community begins to initiate the use of contraceptives.
Malcolm Potts
#86. I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#87. The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home
and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.
Rolf Potts
#88. Be mindful of what supermarkets are doing and demand to see their business practices. Stop throwing away food. Compost as much as you can, eat as locally and as seasonally as you can. Share knowledge and information.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#89. My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#90. Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.
Rolf Potts
#91. If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#92. We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#93. I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.
Annie Potts
#94. I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
Annie Potts
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