Sally Phillips Quotes

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• The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.

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  Children, Sibling, Special

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• I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Car

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• Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

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  Dressing Up, People, Red

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• 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.

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  Children, Pregnancy, Book

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

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  School, Facts, Bullied

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• One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.

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  Queens, Thinking, Years

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• 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.

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  Running, Mean, Blood

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

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  Writing, School, Drawing

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• I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

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  Girl, Labels, Designer

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• I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

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  Giving, Virtue, I Can

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

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  Strong, People, Church

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

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  Hard Work, Parent, Yorkshire

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• The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.

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  Running, Way, Administration

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• I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

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  Thinking, Community, Independence

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• I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

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  Kids, Theatre, Bed

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• I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

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  Start The Day, Intention

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• Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

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  People, Confusing, Posh

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

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  Parent, Truthful

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• When I got pregnant with my first child I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: "I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant." That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

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  Children, Cake, Weight

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

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  Self, Discipline, Trying

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• Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

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  Stupid, Different, Photograph

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• When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

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  Blonde, Four, Brunette

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

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  Guy, Computer, Stills

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

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  Children, Way, Syndromes

  "Down’s Son Is ‘Joy’ for Sally Phillips". The Lady Magazine Interview, www.express.co.uk. April 06, 2011.

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• I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

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  Sorry, Skins, Covering

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