Disaster Quote by Peter Marino

“People's first homes are always disasters. It's like the first time you have sex. It's never as good as later on. It always gets better.”

Peter Marino

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If something's a high-margin product, I understand its importance to the store.

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That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

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