Sophie Kinsella Quotes

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

Definition is the death of discovery.

I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have lunch, and I don't like it.

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

There are always choices in politics.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

We always have a choice.

You not only choose between two ways of life but you choose between two masters.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream. So there is some compulsion involved. But the dividend I get is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.