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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.

Giles Coren

I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Greta Labor Thing Think Unionization
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 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
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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All Care Fashion Funny Old People Pretty Straight Stuff Write
I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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Communist Important Journalist Know More Most Newspaper
I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It was clearly ridiculous that I did not have a hairdresser. So I got one.
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Clearly Doctor Gardner Hairdresser Many Merchant Ridiculous Tailor
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 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
My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.
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Being Charm Competitive Competitiveness Concern More Most Try World
As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles.
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Anthropogenic Aware Ban Believer Environment Left Motor Urban Vehicle Wing
I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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Bad Come Country Press Reputation
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
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
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’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
World cross-fertilization is fantastic. Immigration across the world has led to all kinds of fantastic new and exciting kinds of food being available. And there’s all kinds of different kinds of restaurants.
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Country Cross Different Effort Fantastic Fertilization Line Restaurant Word

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