” When I’m called unkind… that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me. “
” If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that’s why politicians are extremely dull. “
” I do not think that having children – I have three teenagers – keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity. “
” I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don’t have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete. “
” Don’t worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin. “
” English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness. “
” Of course I’m naughty. I’ve always had to compete for attention, you see. “
” Being boring is just wrong, isn’t it? You wouldn’t have got anywhere being boring. “
” People always say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they’re right, because it seems self-evident: nobody’s going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody’s talking about. “
” Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone’s IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact. “
” It’s very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening. “
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