{"author":"Dawn French","author_id":"Dawn+French","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.","author":"Dawn French","tags":["motto","live","television "],"id":1560,"author_id":"Dawn+French"},{"text":"I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.","author":"Dawn French","tags":["myself","imagination","past "],"id":21939,"author_id":"Dawn+French"},{"text":"I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.","author":"Dawn French","tags":["personality","stairs","see "],"id":27653,"author_id":"Dawn+French"},{"text":"I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am.","author":"Dawn French","tags":["i am","know","way "],"id":56914,"author_id":"Dawn+French"},{"text":"My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.","author":"Dawn French","tags":["time","best","best friend "],"id":235269,"author_id":"Dawn+French"},{"text":"That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the bits of it that wobble independently, occasionally, that’s all right. It might take you a while to believe me on this one, lots of people don’t because they seem to suffer from self-hatred that precludes them from imagining that a big woman could ever love herself because they don’t. But I do. I know what I’ve got is a bit strange and difficult to love but those are the very aspects that I love the most! It’s a bit like people. I’ve never been particularly attracted to the uniform of conventional beauty. I’m always a bit suspicious of people who feel compelled to conform. I personally like the adventure of difference. And what’s beauty, anyway?","author":"Dawn French","tags":["confidence","dawn","dear","fatty","french","funny","help","inspirational","inspiring","love","self","weight"],"id":243989,"author_id":"Dawn+French"},{"text":"My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.","author":"Dawn French","tags":["good","timing","learn "],"id":259543,"author_id":"Dawn+French"},{"text":"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.","author":"Dawn French","tags":["beautiful","father","myself "],"id":315806,"author_id":"Dawn+French"},{"text":"Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.","author":"Dawn French","tags":["inspirational","sad","truth"],"id":374980,"author_id":"Dawn+French"},{"text":"There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies come in all shapes, colours, sizes and types, they don't have to be fluffy. They can be demanding and furious if hey like. They do, however, have to wear a tiara. That much is compulsory.","author":"Dawn French","tags":["fairies","fairy","tiara","women"],"id":413147,"author_id":"Dawn+French"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}