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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
Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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Been Countryside Do Nothing Small
I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Greta Labor Thing Think Unionization
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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Complain Country Develop Food Friend Gradually Restaurant Taught
Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking.
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Abuse Campaign Car Hammer Ignorant Pretty Ride Selfish System Talk Taxation Tirelessly Travel Walk
At home, we have fish and greens, fish and greens – maybe salmon steak with curried lentils. No poncy cooking goes on, we don’t have dinner parties, we don’t entertain.
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Curried Fish Green Home Lentis Salmon Steak
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
The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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Possible Serious Thing Turn Way Write
My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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Anywhere Best Columnist Dad Funny Good Newspaper Nobody
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’m just a bit frustrated that in London we make such an effort to ape the New York restaurant scene. I have good friends who ape the New York restaurant scene and do it brilliantly. None of them would claim that the primary reason for going to their restaurant was the food.
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Ape Country Effort Frustrated Line Restaurant Scene
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
When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie, which it wasn’t, of course. I was just working in a clothes shop, but I was aware that it was exciting.
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Cloth Excite Imagine Movie People Shop Sometime Work Year
I used to be a very angry person, I used to throw things and break them. Then I had five years of constant psycho-analysis, and I don’t get angry any more.
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Analysis Angry Break Constant Five Person Physio Thing Use Year
Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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Bring Gratification Instant Knee Planet

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