Arabella Weir Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.”
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“Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.”
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“If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.”
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“In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.”
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“I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.”
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“Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?”
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“The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.”
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“I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.”
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“Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.”
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“I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.”
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“The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.”
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“Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.”
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“If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.”
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“There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.”
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“My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.”
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“I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.”
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“My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.”
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“If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.”
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“I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.”
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“My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.”
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“If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.”
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“When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.”
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“Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?”
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“Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.”
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“As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?”
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“With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.”
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“Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.”
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“I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.”
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“When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.”
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“My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.”
-- Arabella Weir
