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My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

- Sally Phillips

Very, Posh, Mum, Yorkshire

My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals.

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Thought, Some, I Think, Useful Thing

I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

- Sally Phillips

More, Break, Set, Diets

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

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Winter, Over, Wear, Opaque

I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.

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Move, Imagine, Dad, Great Relationship

I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

- Sally Phillips

Cherry, Bad, Had, Break-Up

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

- Sally Phillips

Through, Back, Like, Behold

I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

- Sally Phillips

Think, Everyone, I Think, Surgery

I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

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Monkey, Everyone, Though, Pub

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

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Woman, Still, Ideal, None

What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

- Sally Phillips

Feel, Very, About, Refer

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

- Sally Phillips

Crush, Carol, Lester, Twist

My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

- Sally Phillips

Cold, Why, Good News, Runs

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

- Sally Phillips

Go, Taxi, Again, Hail

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

- Sally Phillips

Survive, Comedians, Cast, To Survive

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

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Buys, Having, Gravitate, Impulse

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

- Sally Phillips

Hot, Before, Bit, Telly

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

- Sally Phillips

Want, Get, Married, Get Married

When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

- Sally Phillips

Happy, Also, Terribly, Only Time

As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.

- Sally Phillips

Vague, Been, Very, Ruin

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

- Sally Phillips

Find, Very, Lot, Truthful

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

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Love, Been, Studios, Keystone

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

- Sally Phillips

School, Fact, Hugely, Bullied

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

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Feels, TV, Particularly, Channels

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

- Sally Phillips

Free, Once, Conform, Syndrome

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

- Sally Phillips

Me, Always, Cut, Scissors

When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

- Sally Phillips

Small, Pretending, Nearly, Pregnant

I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

- Sally Phillips

Live, Three, Testosterone, Household

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

- Sally Phillips

Wealthy, Posh, Quite, Confusing

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

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False, I Write, Which, Situations

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