"Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach."
"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 dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's."
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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."