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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.

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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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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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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I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I've eaten this chocolate croissant.
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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 like you very much. Just as you are.
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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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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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It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.
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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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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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You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.
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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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One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
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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 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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Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes: At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle. The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle. And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle, And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single.
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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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I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].
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