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Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.
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By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
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When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.
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I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
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I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.
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No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.
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Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.
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My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
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I thought I was funny as a kid.
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Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.
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One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.
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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 am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.
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Men are fantastic - as a concept.
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I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
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I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.
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There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.
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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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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 cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
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What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.
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I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.
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There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
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