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" Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area. "
Dawn French
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" My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day. "
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" I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem. "
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" My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet. "
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" I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine. "
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" I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people. "
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" Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about? "
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" The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body. "
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" Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all. "
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" My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit. "
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Open
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" 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. "
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" We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight. "
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" 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. "
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" In actual life I am a grumpy old bag. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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