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Rachel Johnson, born on September 3, 1965, is a seasoned editor with over two decades of experience in the publishing industry. She has held senior editorial positions at several well-known publishing houses and is known for her keen editorial eye and attention to detail. Johnson has made significant contributions to the quality of books and the dissemination of cultural values.

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“People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybodys talking about.”

People Thinking Want Should Self Seems Talking Magazines Evident Publicity

Author:Rachel Johnson

“Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.”

People Mean Facts Sight Add Accents Blonde Mean People

Author:Rachel Johnson

“The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.”

Knows Needs Reason Age Mother Daughter Constant Smoke Appropriate My Daughter Testing Dressings Alarms Wardrobe Mutton

Author:Rachel Johnson

“I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.”

People Real Home Would Be Eye Used Bottom Marketing Excitement Copies Going Out Bankers Distributors Lattes

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“Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.”

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

Mind Pain Social Hurt Unkind Climbers Snobbish

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“I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.”

Want Traditional Magazines Pantheon

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“I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.”

Children Teenager My Children

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“I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.”

Men Facts Running Company Despite Boards Citadels

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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.”

Ifs Years Parent Teenage Teenage Years

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“If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.”

Ifs Trouble Politician Dull Telling The Truth

Author:Rachel Johnson

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

Germany Assembly Salad Ham Trendy Mayonnaise

Author:Rachel Johnson

“It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.”

Self Hard Ready Standing Over You Chalk Snarling

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“Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.”

Courses Attention Naughty

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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.”

Ifs Heart Doubt One Thing Demand Travel Paris No Doubt Stomach Munich

Author:Rachel Johnson

“The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.”

Littles Care Magazines No One Cares

Book:A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor

Source: A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor

“There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.”

Difficult Subjects Difficult Subjects

Author:Rachel Johnson

“When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.”

Cutting Say Anything Unkind

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

Thinking Would Be Hair Yellow Johnson Trademarks

Author:Rachel Johnson

“Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.”

Mean Half Bored Honey Satisfying Blonde Highlights Salons Mayfair

Author:Rachel Johnson

“Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.”

Giving Writing Bigs Worry Muffins Blueberries Lattes

Book:In a Good Place: A Novel

Source: In a Good Place: A Novel

“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.”

People Feels Believe Two Differences Lines Behinds Distance Exploring Straight Lines Speaking Out Behind Your Back

Book:In a Good Place: A Novel

Source: In a Good Place: A Novel

“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.”

Ifs Mistake Regret Hot Coffee Milk Offering Bores Riders Snob

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“I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.”

Thinking Children Young Three Obvious Teenager Maturity Reverse Thrust Confrontation Having Children

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“I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.”

Writing Two Done Hours Novel Harder Hardest Journalism Hardest Thing

Book:In a Good Place: A Novel

Source: In a Good Place: A Novel

“I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.”

Thinking Firsts Jobs Groups Goes On Office Summer Competition Prize Contests August Carrots Wherever You Are Office Jobs

Book:In a Good Place: A Novel

Source: In a Good Place: A Novel

“I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.”

Trying Persons Facts Worry Worried Good Person Being A Good Person Public Image

Author:Rachel Johnson

About the Author

Born: September 3, 1965
Known for: Editor
Quotes: 27

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