"I didn't go to university. They offered me a job as a junior reporter and I went off to work for the Southern Reporter. They sent me to college to do my NCTJ, which is a professional exam for journalists, and I started work as a print journalist purely because I was just a pest. They couldn't think of anything other than giving me a job to stop me hanging around."

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Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Jill Douglas

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“Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.”
“I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.”
“The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is. And the sorrow comes primarily from selfishness, which is the absence of love. The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.”
“Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.”
“Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.”
“Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.”
“I love you. I'm not sure if it's the way you want me to. I think it might be. But I know that I love you. I absolutely love you.”
“A comedy isnâ€™t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.”

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