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I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him. Peter Capaldi
First Think Slightly Charismatic Darker About Charmed Rather Brutality David David Cameron He Him Himself Revealing Cameron Than Figure Less Initially Appeared
The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing. Peter Capaldi
Funny Problem Daughter Clever Living Difficult Earn Tell Because Very Biggest Biggest Problem Swearing
I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that. Peter Capaldi
Truth You Truth Is Politicians Think See Always Get Interesting Much
I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.' Peter Capaldi
Music Art Myself Youth Hate Arrogance School Band Think Meet Trendy Guy Himself Although Got Art School Quite Oh Full
'Doctor Who' has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it. Peter Capaldi
Doctor Attached Doctor Who Certain Showbiz Who Amount
'Atlantic City' is very good. Peter Capaldi
Good City Atlantic Very
I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people. Peter Capaldi
Love You People Late Say Ripe Rather Like Look Documentaries Attractive Make Sort Because Always Anxious Story Which Interesting Interesting People Might Turn Turn-On Themselves Serious Saturday Saturday Night Night
My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to. Peter Capaldi
Home Great You People Wonderful School Mother Made Big Kind Kinds Pot Could Came Go Were Italian Mixing Lots Southern Spaghetti Your Granny Mum Thing
I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential. Peter Capaldi
Good Great People Money Great Deal Society Potential Through Period Felt Deal Golden Where Fulfil Help Help People Who Lived
There are only a handful of really good TV programmes, and I'm blessed to be in one of them. Peter Capaldi
Good Blessed Programmes TV Only Only A Handful Handful Them Really
Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot. Peter Capaldi
You Age Yourself Once Visiting Find Hospitals Reach Lot Certain Certain Age
Everybody loves monsters. Peter Capaldi
Everybody Monsters Loves
When I was at school, you couldn't draw and be into football, too. If you were into art, then you were seen as an absolute pansy, and there was no way you'd be admitted to the guys' world of football. Peter Capaldi
Art You World School Seen Too Way Draw Admitted Guys Absolute Football Were Then
The higher your profile, the more people want you. Peter Capaldi
You People More More People Higher Want Your Profile
I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what. Peter Capaldi
Matter Fall Constant Rise Above Like Industry Going Who Film Film Industry Kept British
I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting. Peter Doig
You Money Better Become Painting Think Studios Make Sure Want Help Painter
I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It's there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter. Peter Doig
Me Every Summer Way Indeed Ancestry Visiting Would Would-Be Some Pushing Feel Am Label Scottish Child Maybe Anywhere Grandparents Painter Aware Right Here
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise. Peter Doig
Me Painting Think Otherwise Elsewhere Would Takes Also Still Escape
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh. Peter Doig
Love Living Harsh Quite
I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider. Peter Doig
Think Mine Would More Outsider Myths Place Really
I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner. Peter Doig
Complete London Outsider Feel Returned Always Been Foreigner Scotland Even
You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable. Peter Doig
You Space Somewhere Just Be Painting Think Francis Francis Bacon Bacon Loft Vast Had He Studio Make Comfortable Felt Built Going Just Decent Cannot Working Special
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works. Peter Doig
You Strange Money Sense Market Out No Sense How Artist Works Aware
If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier. Peter Doig
Work Me You Heart Natural People Money Big Own Painting Easier Out One Thing Somehow Someone Something My Own More Studio Like Involved Make Sure How Am Lots Trying Any Just Work Out Then Production Jeff Thing Things
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless. Peter Doig
Painting Becomes Timeless Interesting
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. Peter Doig
Great Made Painting Way Bad Some Deliberately Him Were Paintings
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