Rachel Johnson

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.

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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.'

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

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

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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.

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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

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Quotes by Rachel Johnson