I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
Arabella Weir
Everybody I've known who's ever got married on a small scale or on a big scale cannot believe the proportions it takes on.
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Does my bum look big in this?
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I was never going 'I want a big car and a house in France' and all that
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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.
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I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
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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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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 overweight.
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Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
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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.
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Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
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The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.
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I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
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