When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
GILES CORENI have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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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 good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
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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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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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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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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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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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I used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I blush.
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People like me make modern life intolerable.
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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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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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