Rachel Johnson Quotes

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• The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate…
• I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would…
• Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
• I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
• I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
• I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
• I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
• If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
• In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
• 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.
• Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
• The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.
• There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
• When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
• Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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