Sophie Kinsella Quotes - Page 5

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• I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and Lady Favisham was quite clearly sitting on the right-hand side of the fireplace." Bollocks. They have no idea where Lady Favisham was, they just don't want to admit it in front of Poirot. I'm amazed he gets anywhere.

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  Believe, Hands, Ideas

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• Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.

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  Baby, Two, Hopeful

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• To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

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  Real, Mistake, Writing

  "Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent - and also ditzy and klutzy'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2012.

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• I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

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  Stars, Work Out, Pops

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• You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery down the road... you're practically still in the womb. So before you lecture me on the way to live my life, try living one of your own, OK?

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  Running, Nurse, Trying

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Undomestic Goddess”, p.303, Random House

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• I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

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  Children, Book, Writing

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• If you look good, you feel good!

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  Feel Good, Looks, Feels

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• Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself.

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  Real, Nice, Opportunity

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• If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

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  Weekend, Thinking, Want Something

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• When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - Sam

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  Girl, Helping Others, Race

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• I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

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  Selfish, Shopping, Mind

  "My life in shopping". Interview with Sophie Kinsella, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

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  Cooking, Brain, Rooms

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• I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

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  Book, Pseudonyms, Firsts

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• I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?

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  Phones, Hands, Want

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.16, Random House

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• Everyone keeps saying I’ll pick it up. But what if I don’t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

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  Years, What If, Three

  Sophie Kinsella (2007). “Shopaholic & Baby”, Random House LLC

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• I'm lying. I don't just need someone like you. I need you.

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  Lying, Needs, Like You

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• I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

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  Lists, Buyers, Impulse

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

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  College, Oxford, Gone

  "Big ideas". Interview With Alice Wignall, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2004.

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• It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?

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  Saws, Forests, Heard

  "I've Got Your Number". Book by Sophie Kinsella, October 31, 2011.

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• There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

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  Mother, Voice, Tears

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)”, p.223, Random House

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• When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

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  Boys, Names, Age

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• If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

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  Home, Thinking, Needs

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• We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.

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  Pigs, Sound, Scrabble

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• I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!

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  Blue, Would Be, Culture

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.24, Random House

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• Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.

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  Love, Thinking, Voice

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