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One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
Helen Fielding
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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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In terms of myself, my next big plan is to loose 7llb (as I've been planning to do since I was seventeen) Also to go to the gym three times a week, not merely to buy a sandwich. And also de-clutter the garage.
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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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That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.
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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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I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.
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It is horrid to smirk.
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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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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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The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
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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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It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting Cathy and banging your head against a tree.
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I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.
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I'd always hoped to write the story as a novel, but there was a long period when the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries] movie was stalled and in confusion. I felt frustrated creatively, and just couldn't work on the Baby material till the movie was sorted out.
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I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.
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It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.
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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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I am brave, though I am alone.
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More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together. I felt better about the material, and found myself writing a letter from Bridget to her son: explaining the original story of how he came to be, from his own Mum.
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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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But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.
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