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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

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Sally Phillips
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 10
Actor
Actress
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
colonial Hong Kong
Sally Elizabeth Phillips
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My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.
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I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.
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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
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The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.
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All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
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Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
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I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
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A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
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