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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.

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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
Journalist
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You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.
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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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In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.
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