Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no', then I find another way to get my 'yes.'

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention.

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

You better check your lipstick before you come and talk to me.

Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.

There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!

COUGHS. These are symptoms, not diseases. Take them to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.