Accidents Quote by Helen Fielding

“For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.” quote by Helen Fielding — Download Open image

“For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.”

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“One has to be in control, otherwise the whole dynamic becomes a total disaster.”

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“it’s a bit like if we were on a planet where all the space creatures were short, green and fat. Except a very few of them were tall, thin and yellow. And all the advertising was of the tall, yellow ones, airbrushed to make them even taller and yellower. So all the little green space creatures spent their whole time…

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Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.

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“Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobic's, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts. And especially will not fantasize about a particular…

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“Bet I will become known as brilliant cook and hostess”

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“It’s no good. When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you’ve created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped…

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