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" I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am. "
Dawn French
Just
Know
Way
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" Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it. "
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Writing
" When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy. "
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Wrote
Sitting
" 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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Horse
" I am a rubbish flirt. "
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" Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15. "
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Money
Loved
Performance
" 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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Go
Say
Person
" Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area. "
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Whose
Way
People
" 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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Daughter
Famous
Gone
" I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up. "
Dawn French
Up
Grow
Grow Up
" 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? "
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Show
Your
Easy
" I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem. "
Dawn French
Self-Esteem
Never
Nothing
" I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that. "
Dawn French
Fat
Am
I Am Happy
" 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. "
Dawn French
Chocolate
Eat
Live
" I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people. "
Dawn French
People
Me
Laugh
" 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. "
Dawn French
Ideas
Welcome
Film
" In actual life I am a grumpy old bag. "
Dawn French
Life
Am
I Am
" 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. "
Dawn French
Life
Story
My Life
" 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. "
Dawn French
Myself
Life
Father
" I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air. "
Dawn French
Sometimes
Air
Things
" I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter. "
Dawn French
Want
Daughter
Play
" Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that. "
Dawn French
Mother
Want
People
" 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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Time
Best
Best Friend
" That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame. "
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Married
Weird
You
" I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we? "
Dawn French
Kissing
Always
Loved
" 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. "
Dawn French
Timing
Open
Learn
" Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it. "
Dawn French
You
Watch
Night
" 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. "
Dawn French
Me
Place
Say
" 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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Whatever
Size
Shell
" I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure. "
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Pleasure
Watch
Love
" That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that. "
Dawn French
Like
Pants
Relationship