There Is No Defence For

When I Think About It Like That, It Feels Like A Burden. But That Won't Mean I'll Be Single For The Rest Of My Life - I Hope. I Feel Very Settled With Myself In My World. I Don't Feel As Needy And Desperate To Prove Things About Myself. In My Twenties I Was Very Keen To Achieve This And Disprove This And That. Now I Enjoy Just Being Able To Concentrate On My Children And My Work And Myself.

I'm Keen To Do As Little Or As Much Reading And Watching As The Director May Advise, And Often Off That You Kind Of Stem Into Other Things That You Find Of Influence, Perhaps The Things That You're Watching. It's A Good Excuse To Get To Know A New Profession, Or A New Approach, Or A New Era. It's About Authenticity. It's About Having The Confidence To Really Feel That You're Saturated And Know The World You're About To Step Into And Understand The Person You're About To Be.

I Hadn't Read Or Heard A Lot About [tom] Wolfe Until I Read This Script, And In That Way I Think It Was Really Clever To Write A Piece About Him Instead Of Max Perkins,[ernest] Hemingway, [john] Fitzgerald, Or Others That People Have Strong Opinions Of Already.

There Is No Defence For My Actions Which I Sincerely Regret. [on An Affair With Nanny Daisy Wright]

I've Never Been A Fan Of Just Doing. I Like To Do Things For A Reason.