Dorothy Dunnett Quotes

Anna Campbell and I have already done a history tour of parts of the U.K., and it would be fun to invite my fellow Word Wench Cara Elliott along, too!

I was studying tourism at college and wanted to travel the world as a tour guide - that was my dream! But actually, sometimes modeling feels quite similar, because I travel so much - probably even more than tour guiding.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don't go to everything in the middle.

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing.

I love travelling, but I have to admit I didn't initially take to Agra in India. As soon as you arrive, someone wants to show you around, take your bags or sell you something - and it's just a bit of a culture shock. You just have to make the necessary mental adjustment to the setting.

The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.

I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

I really love traveling to Japan.

I really fell in love with Africa.

I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

Give me the writing of a nation's advertising and propaganda, and I care not who governs its politics.

Why the hell do I want to go to a place like Mombassa?... I just see myself in a pot of boiling water with all these natives dancing around me.

Who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84.

I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.

What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.

I want to do a travel show.

The expat life was a good one: There was my French boyfriend. My bright two-bedroom flat in Islington. My wine at lunch. I had a 'go bag' packed with loose linens and mosquito repellent - I was ready to be flung to the outer edges of the world at a moment's notice. It was all intrigue and adventure.

I take a keen interest in the architecture of places when I travel.

I want to explore a new place each year, and it can be within India. When I was shooting for 'Mohenjo Daro', I couldn't travel out of the country for two years. But it gave me an opportunity to explore new places within India. I'm sure there are so many places to explore in India, and I would love to go there.