"Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach."
"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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"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."
"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."
"If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence."
"Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing."
"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 be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte."