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" When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke. "

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Self-Discipline

" Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies. "

" I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school. "

" If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie. "

" My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them. "

" As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value. "

" TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?' "

" I don't get star-struck at all. "

" I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. "

" A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful. "

" I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines. "

" My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate. "

" What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not. "

" People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine. "

" I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house. "

" I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days. "

" Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free. "

" All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch. "

" It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place. "