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I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

Arabella Weir

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Arabella Weir
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: December 6
Actor
Comedian
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Everything
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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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I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.
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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 more. Dieting makes you fat.
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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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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 don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.
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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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Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
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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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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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Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
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Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
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If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
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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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If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
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If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.
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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.
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Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
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There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
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I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
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The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
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