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No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Helen Fielding

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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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Morley
Leeds
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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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Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.
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I am brave, though I am alone.
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I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media.
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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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I like you very much. Just as you are.
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Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
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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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Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.
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There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.
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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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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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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 horrid to smirk.
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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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..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
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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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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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Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.
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