Anthea Turner famous quotes

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.
-- Anthea Turner

#Differences #Furniture #Rearranging

Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.
-- Anthea Turner

#Summer #Winter #Thinking

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
-- Anthea Turner

#Running #Home #Like You

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
-- Anthea Turner

#Trying #Firsts #Management

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.
-- Anthea Turner

#Pride #Housewife

There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.
-- Anthea Turner

#Cleaning #Get Away

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
-- Anthea Turner

#Party #Events #Diaries

It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.
-- Anthea Turner

#Running #Home #Wells

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.
-- Anthea Turner

#Witch #Taxes #Cents

One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area.
-- Anthea Turner

#Wise #Home #Eye

Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.
-- Anthea Turner

#School #Divorce #Winning

I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.
-- Anthea Turner

#Moving #Home #Six

The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.
-- Anthea Turner

#Lucky #Celebrate #Contracts

Often, there is a job - say, for a voiceover or an appearance - and you think: 'Blimey!' From the outside it would seem like you are being paid a lot for a short amount of your time. It would be inappropriate to share how much they pay, but in the industry we call it 'doing a bank raid'. Unfortunately, those jobs do not happen every week.
-- Anthea Turner

#Jobs #Thinking #Would Be

I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.
-- Anthea Turner

#Bed #Shepherds #Television

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.
-- Anthea Turner

#Vanity #Clothes #Grace

Those who earn money know best how to spend it.
-- Anthea Turner

#Knows

If your fridge is full this Christmas, use nature's refrigerator - your car!
-- Anthea Turner

#Car #Use #Refrigerators

I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.
-- Anthea Turner

#People #Magic #Budgeting

When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work, I was paid £44. Everything I now know about the birds and the bees, I learnt there.
-- Anthea Turner

#Jobs #School #Holiday

Maybe, instead of paying so much in tax, the very rich could be incentivised to help their local community and young people who do not have a home.
-- Anthea Turner

#Home #People #Community

I do not think we should tax people to a point where they are looking for tax loopholes and getting their money out of the country.
-- Anthea Turner

#Country #Thinking #People

Why do we consider that just because people have more money, they do not deserve it? It is totally wrong. They deserve everything they have earned.
-- Anthea Turner

#People #More Money #Deserve

People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.
-- Anthea Turner

#Thinking #People #Incentives