Arabella Weir Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
• I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.
• I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
• I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
• Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
• 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.
• My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
• 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…

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