Fats Quotes - Page 24

• My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Morning, Kings

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• All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

  Margaret Atwood

  Looks, Fat Women

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

  Sebastian Bach

  Want, Singers

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• I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.

  Tyra Banks

  Mother, Thinking, Young

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• Nobody wanted the "Roseanne" show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

  Roseanne Barr

  Agents, Interest, Heard

  "Roseanne Barr and Mindy Kaling: Funny Women, Serious Talk". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. November 29, 2013.

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• I feel like some of my baby fat is going away, and that’s not just physically, it’s psychologically. I think that your body is in tune with your mind and your spirituality and your heart. If things are going better, I just think you look better.

  Drew Barrymore

  Baby, Heart, Thinking

  "Drew Barrymore: Sometimes I Look Like Shamu". Harper’s Bazaar, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2010.

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• I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

  Drew Barrymore

  Children, School, People

  "Drew Barrymore Admits Her Directorial Debut Whip It Has the Pain of Her Childhood". The Mail on Sunday Interview, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. March 14, 2010.

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• I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

  Lake Bell

  Issues, Insecurity, Tragedy

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• This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Rain, Noses, Hours

  Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.5, 谷月社

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• I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

  Jo Brand

  Mirrors, Looks, Persons

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• I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

  Jo Brand

  Book, Issues, Feminist

  "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.

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• The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

  Jo Brand

  Thinking, Funny Things

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• What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?

  Jo Brand

  Running, Trying, Marathon

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• I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

  Jo Brand

  Exercise, Swimming, People

  "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.

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• If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.

  Jo Brand

  Humorous, Work Out, Abuse

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• When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: "Here comes the bride, all fat and wide." Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

  Jo Brand

  Sun, Married, Moments

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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• With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

  Jo Brand

  Character, Mean, Oil

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• I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Games, Names

  "Foodie Wannabe? Here's How To Fake It". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

  Julie Burchill

  Discipline, People, Mind

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• Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

  Julie Burchill

  Running, Believe, Mean

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• People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

  Julie Burchill

  Self, People, Denial

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• We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him.

  Nicolas Cage

  Father, Son, Chinese

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• The hardest diet I was ever on was the one when I was fat. You can only wear fat clothes, you don't feel good, your sex life gets damaged, you don't have energy for anything. It's horrible.

  Drew Carey

  Sex, Clothes, Feel Good

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• There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.

  Kris Carr

  Dirty, Swimming, Doctors

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.

  Julia Child

  People, Smoking, Lovely

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