Quotes by Arabella Weir

About Arabella Weir:

Arabella Weir is a British comedienne, actress and writer.
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My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

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If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

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My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

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Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

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In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

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Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

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Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?

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I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

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The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

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With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

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Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.

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Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

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My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

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I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

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I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

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I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

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I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

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I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.

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Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

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Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

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Author Bio

  • NameArabella Weir
  • DescriptionBritish comedian, actress, writer
  • BornDecember 6, 1957
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionComedian; Actor; Writer