Arabella Weir Quotes

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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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  Beautiful, Scotland, Tourists

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• If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

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  Children, Car, Honest

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• If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

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  Thinking, Better Life, Knows

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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.

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  Dieting, Goes On, Weight

  "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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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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  People, Weight, Saws

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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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  Son, Years, Class

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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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  Real, Cake, Likes

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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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  Hate, Crazy, Party

  "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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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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  Friendship, Mother, Cancer

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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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  Book, Names, Voice

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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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  Class, Goal, Priorities

  "Once Upon A Life: Arabella Weir" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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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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  People, Way, Done

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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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  Doctors, Normal, Magazines

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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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  Children, Real, Coffee

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• Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

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  Despotism, Cracked

  "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.

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  Cry, Length, Queues

  "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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• 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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  Father, Long, Childhood

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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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  Dad, America, Cairo

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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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  Kids, School, London

  "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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• 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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  School, Kids, Appreciate

  "I just want the best for my kids" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

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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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  People, Helping, Duty

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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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  Shopping, Cliche, Eating

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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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  Charity, Requirements, Linked

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• There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

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  Kindness, Teenager, School

  "I just want the best for my kids" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

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• Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

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  Children, School, Firsts

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