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.
GILES CORENI 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.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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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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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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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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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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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
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Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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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 would go swaggering into restaurants in some ridiculous tramp disguise, challenging them to mistreat me, order the things I was least likely to enjoy, then hurl my plate aside in a fury and demand to see the manager.
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My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights in glittering restaurants.
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There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and then dump you half a mile away in the freezing wind and rain.
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