"Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career... small steps to bigger, to bigger, to now having a steady job."

"I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa."

"Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing."

"Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor."

"I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything."

"It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them."

"Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education."

"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions."