So what on Earth there isn’t to like about New York? I don’t know. But what you do also have is a load of very ordinary restaurants which you make a terrible fuss about which are really only very average. Which is fine. One doesn’t go to New York for the food.
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More Giles Coren Quotes
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My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.
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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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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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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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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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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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I tried to leave the city once, for one of those other places. And, my God, the silence. I could hear myself think, and found that I wasn’t. I am not designed to be lonely as a cloud.
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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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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.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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All I care about is that people who like me think I’m funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.
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Being a success in the world, having total control of one’s life, is about being able to take or leave things.
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My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn’t much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I’d call Richard Widmark or Gregory Peck and we’d restage the Battle of the Alamo.
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Of course you can get a decent mouthful of food in New York. You can get a decent mouthful of food in Nairobi.
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The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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