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Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.

Esther Rantzen, like me, is an egomaniac of the highest order.

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Any religion that cannot stand up to a modern scientific reasoning, and to rational proof, is asinine

True friends are ones who hurt you for your own good.

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen

The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.