Quotes by welsh authors

I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble. Alexandra Roach

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It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard. Alexandra Roach

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Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume. Alexandra Roach

Brilliant Adding Volume

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?' Allison Pearson

You Change Cleaning Impossible Motherhood Baby Software Give Like Dry Male Brain Get Tasks Them Fully Download Two Program

Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged. Allison Pearson

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I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men. Allison Pearson

Women Men Believe Minute Understood Want Really

Girls slightly younger tended to be Donny Osmond girls or Michael Jackson girls, but for my generation, it tended to be David Cassidy. Allison Pearson

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I speak as the journalist who, on the first day back at work for 'The Daily Telegraph' after the birth of my daughter, went to interview Tom Hanks with an epaulette of banana sick on my jacket. Allison Pearson

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When we talk about women's struggle to balance their lives, certain men growl, 'If you can't stand the heat, get back to the kitchen.' Men who have never changed a nappy, mainly, and couldn't pick their child's teacher out in a police line-up. Allison Pearson

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It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film. Allison Pearson

Book Adore Writer Well Sneer Hollywood Film

I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity. Allison Pearson

Slight Kind Seem Feel Which Interested Might Things Profundity Amusing

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing. Allison Pearson

Needs Say Something Writer Just Want Really Expressing

I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality. Allison Pearson

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What you put in, you usually get out. If you are not good enough on the day, fine, but if you put in everything you have, you usually get a decent result. When you lose, it motivates you to go again, not dwell on the past. Alun Wyn Jones

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I wear my stripes on my sleeve, and I am not afraid to show them. Alun Wyn Jones

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I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it? Alun Wyn Jones

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You're as good as your next game, not your previous, so I'll focus on the next one. Alun Wyn Jones

Good You Game Focus Previous Next Your

You do not have time in international rugby to stop and think, 'This is tough.' It's more a case of, 'Let's crack on.' Where's your next job? Fill a hole for someone who has just made a tackle? Alun Wyn Jones

I'm very fortunate I've got a good support network. Alun Wyn Jones

Good Network Support Got Very Fortunate