People assume that you need to run fast to get to optimum fitness, but the truth is endurance lifting makes you stronger and leaner.

Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.

I always enjoy Oslo. It's a beautiful city, especially on a cold winter day.

For me, box step-ups and power clean [exercises] is by far the best.

For whatever reason, people aren't taught that sugar is a massive enemy.

I only enjoy legs day! For my training, it's sort of vital and I've learned to love it, I think.

For getting lean and trying to get toned, it's not about having a low weight and maximising as many reps as possible.

My worst flight was flying between Macau and Osaka in 2007. The turbulence was so bad that the cabin crew were assuming their crash positions. I had more than a bit of a sweat on.

I think squats is a generic thing - you can do squats with anything. That's the great thing about it. As long as you get in a safe position to do it.

I think if you're not going to look so daft walking down the street split your workouts a little bit.

Skiing with friends in Reberty, France, after the Winter Olympics in 2010, was an amazing trip. I was at my happiest surrounded by all those mountains.

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.

My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

Don't be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

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