Arabella Weir quotes
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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.”
-- Arabella WeirSource : "I just want the best for my kids" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.
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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.”
-- Arabella WeirSource : "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.
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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.”
-- Arabella WeirSource : "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2006.
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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.”
-- Arabella WeirSource : "Arabella Weir: I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.
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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.”
-- Arabella WeirSource : "Once Upon A Life: Arabella Weir" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.
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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.”
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“As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.”
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“Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.”
-- Arabella WeirSource : "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2006.
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“I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.”
-- Arabella WeirSource : "I don't understand boys - they do things like stand in rivers waiting for fish they know won't come" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.
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“If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening.”
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“Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?”
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“I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'”
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“Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.”
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“My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.”
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“I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.”
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“I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.”
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“I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.”
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“Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.”
-- Arabella WeirSource : "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.
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