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..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
Helen Fielding
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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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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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No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.
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I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
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I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
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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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One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
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I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.
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When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.
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Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.
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