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In 1980 I was attacked by a dog in Spain and was temporarily blinded in one eye - I thought it would end my tennis career.
I'm terribly shallow. I don't miss things once I have stopped doing them, and I don't miss people when I stop seeing them.
If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.
You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D.
Donald Trump's tweets attract ridicule from some. But clearly they communicate effectively with his millions of supporters.
I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.
Mental health really is a search to be happy, I think that's what people want in life - and if you're happy you're winning.
I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.
When we first got together, one of the things me and Judy had in common was a passion for the correct use of the apostrophe
Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.
I try to swim for 30 minutes and walk for 30 minutes, because if I don't, my finely honed body will slip into its old ways.
It's my parents' attitudes to situations that gives me a sense of reality about what's worth worrying about, and what's not.
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan, it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.
Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. The problem is too much wind, too little water and tired compost.
It's one of the things, certainly for me, anyway: I'm learning to take a bigger role in the things that I'm associated with.
Wimbledon is a special place for me in so many ways and I feel privileged to have been such a big part of it over the years.
If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.
Some people will always think I've got the eyes of Satan. Others will think I'm a TV god. People have the right to criticise.
The truth is that wreaths have never really been part of my creative life. I like them and want them and know how to do them.
No, I don't want to go back and wrestle again... But some big bubble could break, and I might need money like everybody else.
Because I'm my parents' daughter, and get attention from things I've done in the past, that probably goes over people's heads.
There are people who appear on television who are paid for by shadowy think tanks whose financing they won't come clean about.
Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.
Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.
While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.
The way to get to like good food is by learning to cook, which is why I'm for ever banging on about children learning to cook.
What makes me laugh is 'Masterchef,' with that ridiculous thing they always say, 'cooking doesn't get any tougher than this!.'
We've gone from one end of the spectrum, where we didn't want children, to the other end where we thought, 'yes, let's try it.'
I have no doubt that LeBron James would've loved to have played against Michael Jordan, but that simply is not going to happen.
During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back Soviet communism.
My parents really wanted me to have an arranged marriage when I was younger, but I think they have updated a bit with the times.
In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.
I love filming. I love the teamwork. It's a tight-knit group spending months on the road together. All the experience is shared.
Seriously. Thank you all. In that ring w/all of u watching was THE best place for me for a very long time. Thx for the memories.
I still get goose-bumps when I walk into the All England Lawn Tennis Club at the start of tournament and that will never change.
All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.
I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.
When the present gets tough, you have to battle through it by imagining an outcome that is weeks, potentially even months, ahead.
I got into it just thinking, 'Oh, television, maybe I'll have a go at that.' I could've never imagined that it would get to this.
My parents were first-generation immigrants. My mum wore a sari but at school and as a teenager and in my 20s I wanted to fit in.
I feel ashamed if my hands are too clean and untouched. It's a measure of how much time I've spent travelling and poncing around.
The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.
I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you've lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose.
The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.
I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.
The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.
I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.
I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens.