Quotes by Rachel Johnson - Page 1

The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Care
Littles
Magazines
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Attention
Courses
Naughty
Had
Always
Compete
Course
See
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'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
No One Cares
Buys
Cares
Lady
Magazine
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Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Hair
Johnson
Thinking
Yellow
Trademark
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I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Children
My Children
Teenager
Freelance
Seemed
Teenagers
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Germany
Ham
Mayonnaise
Salad
Trendy
Leaves
Salads
Tossed
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Dull
Telling The Truth
Trouble
Politicians
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Hurt
Mind
Pain
Social
Unkind
Climber
Hurts
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Magazines
Pantheon
Traditional
Want
Lady
Magazine
Restored
Weekly
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Cutting
Say Anything
Unkind
Anything Else
Cuts
Quick
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Difficult
Difficult Subjects
Subjects
Life Time Difficult
Lady
Sadly
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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.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Travel
Heart
No Doubt
Paris
Stomach
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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 / Editor
Running
Men
Boards
Men Women Power
Women Power Men
Occupy
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Parent
Teenage
Teenage Years
Years
Anguished
Presence
Reliving
Visibly
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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 / Editor
Chalk
Over You
Self
Snarling
Standing
Hurl
Slightest
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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 / Editor
Facts
Good Person
Public Image
Trying
Worried
Worry
Good Me Bad
Dressed
Good Me Good Person
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Discouraging
Gas
Heating
Pointless
Sitting
Answering
Board
Feeling
Utterly
Wondering
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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 / Editor
Children
Confrontation
Having Children
Maturity
Teenager
Thinking
Teenagers
Copy Quote
I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Done
Hardest Thing
Journalism
Two
Writing
The Hardest Thing
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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 / Editor
Giving
Worry
Writing
Clap
Double
Followed
Muffin
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Brilliant
Essentials
Me Parents More
Provided
Realise
Copy Quote
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 / Editor
Home
Eye
Real
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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 / Editor
Distributors
Excitement
Marketing
Home Day People
Copy
Copy Quote
I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Coffee
Milk
Mistake
Offering
Regret
Anyone
Bore
Mariah Carey
Rider
Tend
Worse
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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 / Editor
Add
Mean
People
Sight
Accent
Automatically
Iq
Nicer
Prettier
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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 / Editor
Blonde
Bored
Highlights
Mean
Satisfying
Me Never More
Cheap
Mention
Salon
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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 / Editor
Daughter
Age
Constant
Mother
Mutton
Smoke
Testing
Wardrobe
Alarm
Dressing
Interchangeable
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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.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Self
Talking
Thinking
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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 / Editor
Believe
Differences
Distance
Exploring
Two
English People
Shortest
Shortest Distance
Speaking
Straight Line
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People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Publicity
Seems
Always People Bad
Buy
Magazine
Self-Evident
Talks
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With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Fifty
Forty
Meditation
Menopause
Natural History
Stalking
Streets
Addition
David
Calls
Converse
Dads
Middle Age
Recent
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I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Jobs
August
Groups
Office
Prize
Summer
Thinking
Among
Carrot
Contest
Won
Longest
Recognize
Wherever
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