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.
GILES CORENAs 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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When I was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn’t already do it – for driving, to him, was innate in the human. It was what separated us from the apes. And from the French, who weren’t much good at it either.
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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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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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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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People like me make modern life intolerable.
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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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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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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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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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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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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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Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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