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I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

- Miranda Hart

Give, Own, My Own, Relax

My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.

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Bread, Think, Butter, Hilarious

I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees. That, combined with a perfectly round pudding-bowl haircut, made me look, on a good day, like a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot Men, and a monk.

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Good, Perfectly, Primarily, Brown

I'd like someone tall, dark and nice. Independent and confident. Not a macho man. Perhaps a little bit girly, in a way. The key for me is if we can cry with laughter.

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Confident, Independent, Like, Girly

If you're naturally a certain size, I think it suits you and you can see that. There's no point in trying to conform for the sake of it. People are meant to be different shapes, and their different shapes are so interesting and, ultimately, why people fall in love with them.

- Miranda Hart

Love, Why, I Think, Different Shapes

I hate the fact that we all feel the pressure to go to gyms, have a trainer if money allows, get jogging - all those societal pressures to keep fit and look a certain way.

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Fact, Go, Certain Way, Jogging

It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends from university have said, 'I quite fancied you, but I wouldn't have dared...' and I was like, 'Oh really?' I was completely amazed that anyone had ever fancied me, and also that I'd obviously given an impression of 'Don't touch me.'

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Feel, University, Couple, Vicious

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

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Life, Over It, Your, Funniest

I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the writers, who have helped out at the beginning and end of the process - they're all men - have suggested quite feminine subjects they want me to explore. And I'm always, simply, 'No.' I don't want to do diets, don't want to. I just can't do it.

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Beginning, Some, Feminine, Diets

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

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Gold, Parking, Olympic, Parallel

I'm not a stereotypically beautiful woman, and I'm so happy that I'm not. I've seen those ladies - the need to be attractive at all times is ghastly. Also, in your twenties, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem.

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Happy, Woman, Had, Ladies

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

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Woman, Pruning, Exterior, Scottish

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.

- Miranda Hart

Education, Lucky, About, Choir

I am essentially a middle-aged woman who likes making up weird snack combinations and galloping.

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Woman, Snack, Making, Galloping

I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television.

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Doing, Homework, Equivalent, Brain Surgery

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

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Comedy, Line, Sure, One Line

People are obviously going to mention what I look like, but it's a shame it has to be a key part. I can't just be Miranda.

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Shame, Like, Going, Key

I do feel that there is a little confusion in people's minds between the real me and sitcom Miranda. I am pleased that people identify with the character, but I think they want me to be her and are disappointed that the real Miranda doesn't actually fall into graves or be that rubbish at life.

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Life, Feel, I Think, Confusion

Obviously I love the fans, and it's beyond lovely that people like my work, and I love saying 'Hi,' shaking a hand, doing a high five. All that's fine. But the posing for photos is so time-consuming and frankly a bit weird.

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Love, Doing, Hi, Posing

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

- Miranda Hart

Woman, Go, Taller, Alpha

My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I know'. I loved that.

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Which, Mum, Funniest, Spurred

I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to do the best I can.

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Thought, Comedy, Always, Important Job

I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm an idiot, aren't we all a bit like this, laugh at me.' Whereas, a lot of other comedians are saying: 'Aren't I clever? You want to be me, aren't I cool? Revere me.' Which is fine. But that's not my bag.

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Other, Clowns, I Think, Whereas

I do love to cry. I'll cry at the drop of a hat. I'll cry at your basic television programme, let alone a weepie. But not big, heavy, serious crying. I haven't done that for a while, which is a relief. More like a little welling up of joy.

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Love, Big, Drop, Relief

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

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Comedy, Want, Truths, Comedic

I know there are fewer women comics, and I think there'll continue to be an inherent sexism in many industries, comedy being one, just because things do take a while to evolve. Things are changing, but it's going to take time. I accept this rather than getting angry about it.

- Miranda Hart

I Think, Rather, Comics, Industries

However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn't.

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Deep, Desperate, However, Opposite Sex

I think babies are a bit boring, actually. They're OK when they're older; they make you laugh. I think we all think that, really - we just don't say it.

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Think, Say, I Think, OK

No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

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Long Time, Take, Your Dream, Blessing

By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I'd better start practising my interviews for Parkinson. Don't look shocked - I wasn't the only teenager to imagine that. Though I may have been the only one to have chosen T'Pau as my walk-on music.

- Miranda Hart

Thought, Been, Practising, Teenager

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