” The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers – the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit. “
” Anything looks good if you’ve got the body of a Victoria’s Secret model and the porelessly smooth skin-tone of a piece of glass. “
” A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything – whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want. “
” A good school teaches you resilience – that ability to bounce back. “
” It’s stupid to say that there’s any comfort to be had in ‘knowing your place,’ but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like ‘Downton Abbey.’ There’s a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in. “
” I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities. “
” When did you last have fun being dignified? “
” It doesn’t matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you. “
” By doing, you become employable. It doesn’t matter what the job is, by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas. “
” The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer. “
” I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job. “
” There’s a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It’s somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you’re somehow a loser. “
” I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day. “
” Luck is going to play a huge part in your life. “
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