British - Author | September 3, 1965 -
Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
Rachel Johnson
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With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
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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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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.
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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.
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Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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