Quotes

Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.

I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I really want to win a medal and would want to win gold. It's my fire and fuel, life and dream, everything.

I'm always grateful when people share stuff on social media that I've never seen before, because it gives me a bit more strength to hold more space for the unsavory parts of my life that cause me shame.

My life isn't going to stop because my father's dead and my trolls won't stop and people won't stop writing about me.

The idea that my life would be something I shared with the public wasn't just something that I assumed - it was something that I actively wanted. I still want it.

I feel like the more serious a life event is that you share on social media, the more ridiculous it sort of becomes, the more you sort of self-trivialize.

If you build a life around an identity that springs from your own imagination, is it ever inauthentic?

When you realize how short life is, you ought to celebrate life even more.

I get a little stressed even sometimes knowing all the things I want to read, I won't have enough time in this lifetime. The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

I'm not a big fan of Sundays, but now that my life is kind of chaotic, structure-wise, I don't really notice it's Sunday most of the time. But I used to associate it - when I was in school - to 'back to school on Monday,' so I didn't like that day.

Everyone is battling something emotional behind closed doors - that's life.

The thing about Prince Harry is that he has no choice. He's not some egotistical rock star who wants loads of attention. That is his life. He didn't ask for it, but he just has to deal with it.

It's so important to have a private life.

I have no regrets about doing 'Strictly.' This is the biggest achievement of my life.

'Strictly' is definitely life-changing, and I hope it can open another pathway for me, career-wise. Maybe something a bit more musical.

Being engaged was the best feeling in the world - that someone wants to spend the rest of their life with you.

Don't put your love life on Instagram! It's nice to celebrate how you feel at a particular time, but don't get carried away.

People see the celebrity lifestyle and assume everything is perfect, but we're just like everyone else.

There's so much pressure to be at a certain level in your job and at a certain place in your life, but if everyone was doing things at the same time, then life would be so boring. Everyone reaches different stages at different times.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

I live my life as an entrepreneur in every possible way I can by applying the question 'What can be done better and how?' at every juncture.

Trust your instinct. And if you can't tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.