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All Quotes by author - Dawn French

" Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area. "

" Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise? "

" Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want. "

" For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all. "

" I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart. "

" I am a rubbish flirt. "

" I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up. "

" I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine. "

" I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am. "

" I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable. "

" If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. "

" I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. "

" I haven't really ever had to audition for anything. "

" I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else. "

" I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it. "

" I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet. "

" I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that. "

" I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people. "

" I'm constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, 'Well, this is bloody weird', you can get through everything. "

" I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air. "

" I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth. "

" In actual life I am a grumpy old bag. "

" I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim. "

" I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person. "

" It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon. "

" It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. "

" I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we? "

" I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am. "

" I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem. "

" I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me. "

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