George Papandreou Quotes
I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.
Quotes to Explore
-
I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
-
One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.
-
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
-
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
-
By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
-
Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
-
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
-
In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
-
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
-
You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
-
A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
-
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
-
Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
-
It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
-
I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.
-
I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
-
I regret all of my books.
-
I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage.
-
I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.
-
Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'
-
My characters are not plastic.
-
As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.
-
I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.
