"I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it."
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"Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe."
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"Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect."
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"A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion."
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"I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people."
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"I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind."
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"I just don't like travelling very much."
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"I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways."
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"Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired."
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"Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important."
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"For a long time, people assumed I was gay, so when I got married the press were all a bit shocked and made a big deal of it - and ditto when I had children. I felt very much under the microscope with paps outside the house taking pictures of me getting the baby out of the car, it was excruciating. I remember getting her out of the car seat and thinking 'oh God I'm going to drop her and they're going to take a picture'. I was so nervous. Those sorts of things are really hard."
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"Usually, what people in the public eye do is pick two charities and just exclusively work for them. But that means you have to turn people down all the time, so I try and do something for everyone that asks me, at least once."
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"Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was."
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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."
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"How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?"
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"Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning."
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"Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female."
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"There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much."
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"There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much."
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"I'm a real Kentish maid, you know."
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