A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.

The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

Sometimes it lasts in love, But sometimes it hurts instead

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Everybody has an addiction mine happens to be you

Alcohol lowered inhibitions. It didn't create impulses that weren't there.

I tried to treat them like me and some of them weren't.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

Time for some thrillin' heroics.

People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.