"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."

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Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'I have a duty not to be boring'". Interview With Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2010.

Rachel Johnson

#Real Quotes #Eye Quotes #Home Quotes

“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.”
“The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.”
“Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.”
“I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.”
“Funny is funny. And if it's good, it travels.”
“With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on.”
“Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.”

Source : Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.
“Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.”

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