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I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.

Giles Coren

I sleep nine hours every night, I have a little nap after lunch, and, if I’m going out for dinner, I sneak in an extra one before I head out.
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Dinner Every Extra Head Hour Little Nap Night Nine Out Sleep Sneak
The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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Possible Serious Thing Turn Way Write
I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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Bad Come Country Press Reputation
People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you’re famous, but me? Me, I’m in the Premier Inn in Gillingham.
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Bbc Country Million Paid People Premier Think
I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn’t have to, and my wife and I went out only for the good stuff. And I wrote mostly positive reviews. Not only. But mostly. And, ooooh, it felt an awful lot better.
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Awful Better Feel Felt Good Mostly Review Stuff Wife Wrote
Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it’s no big deal, and it’s more important to have a glass of wine.
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Dad Everything First Job Laugh Person Taught Time
I have Gordon Ramsay to thank for my TV career because Channel 4 spent a long time trying to find him a sidekick for ‘The F Word’, then he suggested me, knowing I’d stand up to him.
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Career Channel Know People Sidekick Spent Stand Suggest
You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It’s just I wouldn’t actually go there looking for the food.
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Actual Decent Enough Food Hard Lok Mouthful Wound
I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I’m at home more – and less of a disciplinarian.
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Alone Become Dad Father Home More
We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at scary, cross-eyed rural people, and brought our food and family inside because they were the safest places to be.
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Arrow Brought Build Cross Family Food Inside People Place Rural Safety Scary Wall
I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Greta Labor Thing Think Unionization
But still I can never shake the feeling that buses are somehow beneath me. Which is why I have a rule regarding their use: I never, ever run for one. And nor should you.
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Beneath Bus Feel Regard Rule Run Shake Somehow Still
As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father’s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.
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Car City Cling Desert Driver Father Great Man More Really Without
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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Beginning City Huddle Own Protection
How clever am I? I’m really quite clever. I mean, look, I’ve got a first-class degree from Oxford.
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Class Clever Country Degree First Look Mean
The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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Big Dad First Iron Night Olivetti Remember Thing Typewriter Work

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