I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.

Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.

In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.

Positive things happen to positive people.

For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it.

Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.

Love's a weird one, isn't it? I've never told my husband Graham that I love him. He's never told me either. I think it started as a bit of a joke. We just decided never to say it.

Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

There's so much more purpose behind my getting up in the morning. Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.

When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone. And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me. The Cassie who kills.

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.