Helen Fielding Quotes

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

Helen Fielding

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 19, 1958

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We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'

Maya Angelou

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Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.

Ann Voskamp

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My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!'

Amber Le Bon

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If Iran gains a nuclear weapon, we will need a new calendar in the world - it would change humanity that much. Iran will give these weapons to terrorists the world over, and your children and mine will step into the shadow of nuclear terrorism.

Trent Franks

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You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Tony Kushner

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I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

Compay Segundo

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I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

Pete Wentz

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A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

Richard Hell

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'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces the faux-found-footage ShakyCam style, instead employing a traditionally smooth visual style.

Richard Corliss

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I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

Kristen Wiig

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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

George Savile

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