Monday, 22 December 2014
Friday, 19 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Emily Bronte
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: it vexes me to choose another guide."
Emily Bronte, died today 1848
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Betty Grable
"The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there."
Betty Grable, born today 1916
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Stephen Spielberg
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Arthur C Clarke
Monday, 15 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Carrie Fisher
"There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now, I might as well take a nap."
Carrie Fisher
Friday, 12 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Taylor Swift
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Eleanor Roosevelt
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Emily Dickinson
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Judi Dench
"The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise, why would I go on doing it?"
Judi Dench, 80 today
Monday, 8 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... John Lennon
"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it will always get you the right ones."
John Lennon, died today 1980
Friday, 5 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Joan Didion
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Jay Z
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Jean Luc Godard
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Jean Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Un Bout de Souffle |
"A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."
Jean Luc Godard, 84 today
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Bette Midler
"I made a pact with myself a long time ago: never watch anything stupider than you."
Bette Midler, 69 yesterday
Monday, 1 December 2014
Today I'm channelling... Sarah Silverman
"'The guys who are into the shivering, limping girls, are not the guys you want."
Sarah Silverman, 44 today
Friday, 28 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Winston Churchill
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Kathryn Bigelow
"The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's a long, long journey."
Kathryn Bigelow, film director, 63 today
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Charlie Brown
"In the book of life, the answers are not in the back."
Charlie Brown, created by Charles Schulz, born today 1922
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Roald Dahl
Monday, 24 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... George Eliot
Friday, 21 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Maya Angelou
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Einstein
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Tina Fey
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Margaret Atwood
"I believe everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
Margaret Atwood, 74 today
Monday, 17 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... RuPaul
Friday, 14 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Pippi Longstocking
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Anne Hathaway
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Kurt Vonnegut
"We have to be continually jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
Kurt Vonnegut, born today 1922
Monday, 10 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Neil Gaiman
"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
Neil Gaiman, 54 today
Friday, 7 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Lorde
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Robert Frost
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Tilda Swinton
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Joan Didion
Monday, 3 November 2014
Today I'm channelling... Anna Wintour
"It's all about timing. If it's too soon no-one understands. If it's too late everyone's forgotten." Anna Wintour, 65 today
Friday, 31 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... the Wicked Witch of the West
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Amy Poehler
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Yes Please is published in the UK by Picador on November 6 |
"Fighting ageing is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good and has been proven to never end."
Amy Poehler
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Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Winona Ryder
"I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I've fucking thought of it."
Winona Ryder, born today 1971
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Bill Gates
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
Bill Gates, born today 1955
Monday, 27 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Sylvia Plath
"It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else, or nobody at all."
Sylvia Plath, born today 1932
Friday, 24 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Picasso
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
Picasso, born 25 October 1881
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Haruki Murakami
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Doris Lessing
"You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc, unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so."
Doris Lessing, born today 1919
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Carrie Fisher
"Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked."
Carrie Fisher, born today 1956
Monday, 20 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Edna St Vincent Millay
"I'm glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."
Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1905)
Friday, 17 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Cheryl Strayed
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Strayed on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 |
"Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told."
Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Today I'm channelling... Angela Lansbury
"I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and people's mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels."
Angela Lansbury, 89 tomorrow
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