Arabella Weir Quotes

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Arabella Weir

Profession : Comedian

Birth : December 6, 1957

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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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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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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When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

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

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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' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

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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 would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

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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 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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I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.

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

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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 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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My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

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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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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 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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