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The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Julie Burchill

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Julie Burchill

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

Julie Burchill

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

Jack L. Chalker

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?

Jessica Cutler

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Jilly Cooper

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

Jilly Cooper

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

Deborah Norville

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

Deborah Norville

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

Daniel H. Pink

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Dawn Powell

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

David Remnick

By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.

Douglas Rushkoff

The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

Douglas Rushkoff

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

Don Roff

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Don Roff

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Don Roff

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Don Roff

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

Dani Shapiro

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

Dani Shapiro