I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

You might be a redneck if your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.

And all I do is look into your eyes For that special touch of paradise

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.