Helen Fielding Quotes - Page 3

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• It is horrid to smirk.

  Helen Fielding

  Smirk

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• It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

  Helen Fielding

  Uplifting, Fun, Writing

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• If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something.

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  Knowing, Matter, Habit

  Helen Fielding (2012). “Cause Celeb”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.

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  Order, People, Ends

  Bridget Jones's Diary "August" (1996)

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• I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

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  Men, Skills, Social

  Helen Fielding (2009). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• ..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

  Helen Fielding

  Feet, Waiting, Forgiving

  Helen Fielding (2009). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

  Helen Fielding

  How You Feel, Be Good, Feels

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• Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

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  Girl, Should Have, Accepted

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I've eaten this chocolate croissant.

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  Chocolate, Realizing, Fit

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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• I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

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  Queens, Men, Ice Queen

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• Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.

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  Ideas, World, Imbalance

  Helen Fielding (2012). “Cause Celeb”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

  Helen Fielding

  Self, Way, Substance

  Bridget Jones's Diary "New Year's Resolutions" (1996)

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• But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

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  Want, Lasts, Your Best Friend

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.

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  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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

  Writing, Finance, Bridget Jones

  "Dumped Bridget, wrote spy novel". Interview with John Walsh, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• In terms of myself, my next big plan is to loose 7llb (as I've been planning to do since I was seventeen) Also to go to the gym three times a week, not merely to buy a sandwich. And also de-clutter the garage.

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  Three, Sandwiches, Next

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 07, 2016.

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• I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

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  Baby, Independent, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

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  Ties, Diaries, Might

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

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  Book, Littles, Events

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I had my daughter by C-section, so knew when and where she was going to be born. I got freakishly organized and prepared a group e-mail birth announcement. Unfortunately, I accidentally pressed Send All. I then had to send another e-mail saying, "I'm really sorry but I haven't actually had the baby yet." Then, when I actually did have the baby, I felt too embarrassed to send another e-mail saying, "I've definitely had the baby now."

  Helen Fielding

  Daughter, Baby, Sorry

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

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• With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Fun, Dark

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

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• Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.

  Helen Fielding

  Book, Battle, Diaries

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

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• For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, Design, Stories

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I'd always hoped to write the story as a novel, but there was a long period when the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries] movie was stalled and in confusion. I felt frustrated creatively, and just couldn't work on the Baby material till the movie was sorted out.

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Writing, Confusion

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

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• As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Writing, Son

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 07, 2016.

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