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Arabella Weir Quotes

British - Comedian | December 6, 1957 -

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.

Time Diet View Exercise Year Body

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.

Life Loved Hurdles Through Own Get

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.

Opportunity Learn Luxury Now Cost

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

America Born Living Where I Was Born

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 self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.

Woman Mind Crazy Ending Madness You

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.

Feeling Feelings Why More Everything

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.

Me Building Diet Self-Worth Skills

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

Mistakes Write Greatest Because Most

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

Father Time Childhood Living Because

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.

Beautiful Where Because Been Shot

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.

Life Myself People Control My Life

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

Life Well Just Crushing Unsuccessful

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