Jilly Cooper Quotes - Page 2

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• I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

  Jilly Cooper

  Class System, People, Mind

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• And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

  Jilly Cooper

  Grandmother, Ready, Persons

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• I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

  Jilly Cooper

  Book, Writing, Firefighter

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• The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

  Jilly Cooper

  Work, Should Have, Office

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• The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

  Jilly Cooper

  Running, Work, Reading

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• Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

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  Jobs, Work, Training

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “How To Survive From Nine To Five”, p.14, Random House

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• But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.

  Jilly Cooper

  "My favourite table" by Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

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• I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

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  Home, Want, Clock

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• There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

  Jilly Cooper

  England, Praying, Workshops

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.344, Random House

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• Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

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  Used, Cooks, Dazzling

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• I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

  Jilly Cooper

  Sunday, Wife, Pieces

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• I'd never have written the big books in London.

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  Book, London, Bigs

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• It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

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  Office, Pressure, Terrible

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• At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

  Jilly Cooper

  Home, Soup, Cabbage

  "My favourite table". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

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• There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.

  Jilly Cooper

  Men, Attractive

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• My own parents loved each other very much.

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  Parent, My Own

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• Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

  Jilly Cooper

  Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

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