Dawn French Quotes - Page 2

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• I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.

  Dawn French

  Horse, Thinking, Play

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• In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

  Dawn French

  Bags, Grumpy, Actual Life

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• I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?

  Dawn French

  Kissing

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• I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

  Dawn French

  Heart, Kids, Dressing Up

  "Dawn French: 'I decided I'd pretend to be someone very confident'". Interview with Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2013.

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• It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

  Dawn French

  Beautiful, Daughter, Dad

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• I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.

  Dawn French

  Sweet, Drinking, Alcohol

  "Dawn French on her amazing weight loss: I never disliked my body but I slimmed to be there for my kid" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2012.

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• I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

  Dawn French

  Watches, Guilty, Pleasure

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• I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.

  Dawn French

  People, Said, Humour

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• Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Joy, Simply Love

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• I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

  Dawn French

  Thinking, Sound, Novelists

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• The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.

  Dawn French

  Weight, Body, Lost

  "Super size me". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2006.

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• I am a rubbish flirt.

  Dawn French

  Flirting, Rubbish

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• I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Past, Imagination

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• I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

  Dawn French

  Drama, Struggle, School

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• Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

  Dawn French

  Zero, Thinking, Want

  "Dawn French on her amazing weight loss: I never disliked my body but I slimmed to be there for my kid" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2012.

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• I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.

  Dawn French

  Depression, Crazy, Pills

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• I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

  Dawn French

  Auditions, Havens

  "Dawn French: 'I decided I'd pretend to be someone very confident'". Interview with Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2013.

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• The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

  Dawn French

  Hero, Eric, Would Be

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• When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Joy, Sitting

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• What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

  Dawn French

  Thinking, Want, Facts

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• I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Time Zones, Brain

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• I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

  Dawn French

  Lying, Writing, Feelings

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• It was my father who taught me to value myself.

  Dawn French

  Father, Taught, Being A Dad

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• My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.

  Dawn French

  Girl, College, Phones

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• That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.

  Dawn French

  Kissing, Married, Shame

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