People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybodys talking about.

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

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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.

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sight mean people

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.

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eye real home

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.

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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.

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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.

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worry trying facts

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

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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.

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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.

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teenage parent years

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

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difficult-subjects difficult subjects

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

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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.

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bored blonde mean

The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

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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.

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daughter age mother

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

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naughty courses attention

I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

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pantheon magazines want

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

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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.

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boards running men

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

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telling-the-truth trouble dull

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

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ham salad germany