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Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

Helen Fielding

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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].
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I like you very much. Just as you are.
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Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes.
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No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.
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Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.
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..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
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If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way.
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I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.
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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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It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.
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You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.
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9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life? I know. Will eat some cheese.
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