“I don't think I'm ruthless, but I'm very driven, irritatingly so.” — Deborah Meaden Quote

I don't think I'm ruthless, but I'm very driven, irritatingly so.

We have a very good history of manufacturing in this country but I worry that these skills are being lost. We walk around saying, 'We haven't got any manufacturing any more' but Made In Britain really means something, particularly in other parts of the world. We need to support British manufacturing.

Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.

I consider my position in the business world not as a woman but as a person.

I did ballroom dancing at school, but I was atrocious.

Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.

I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.

While Hollywood's computer graphics quality is world-class, their production pipelines are a mess of non-standard tools and labor-intensive processes driven by the mantra of maximizing quality regardless of cost. It's very Balkanized.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.