Quotes by Arabella Weir

About Arabella Weir:

Arabella Weir is a British comedienne, actress and writer.
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When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

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I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

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Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

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If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of...

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As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

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My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

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There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

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I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

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Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

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I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

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If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

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As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children int...

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I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

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I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.

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When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

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The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

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My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are ...

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I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.

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Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

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There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

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If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

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Author Bio

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