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. Rachel Johnson More Quotes by Rachel Johnson More Quotes From Rachel Johnson Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach. Rachel Johnson paris heart travel Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact. Rachel Johnson sight mean people English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness. Rachel Johnson distance two believe 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. Rachel Johnson teenager children thinking 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. Rachel Johnson worry trying facts When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me. Rachel Johnson unkind cutting say-anything 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. Rachel Johnson worry writing giving If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence. Rachel Johnson teenage parent years There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that. Rachel Johnson difficult-subjects difficult subjects Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing. Rachel Johnson hair yellow thinking Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap. Rachel Johnson bored blonde mean The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys. Rachel Johnson magazines care littles The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's. Rachel Johnson daughter age mother Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see. Rachel Johnson naughty courses attention I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines. Rachel Johnson pantheon magazines want I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right. Rachel Johnson my-children teenager children I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power. Rachel Johnson boards running men If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull. Rachel Johnson telling-the-truth trouble dull In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves. Rachel Johnson ham salad germany 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. Rachel Johnson snarling over-you self
