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When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

Helen Fielding

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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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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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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 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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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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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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..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
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When Bridget [Jones] does finally get pregnant, she 's bound to mess it up, but what I tried to show is the importance of love and kindness rather than perfection, and the importance of support from friends who help you to laugh at your mistakes and pick yourself up afterwards.
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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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Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.
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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 will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.
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Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
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Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.
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Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.
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I like you very much. Just as you are.
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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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