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

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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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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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One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
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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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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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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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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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When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.
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I am brave, though I am alone.
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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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Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.
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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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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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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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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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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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