A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant is a disastrous thing in a city of 10 million people just trying to muddle through.
GILES CORENI always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn’t want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.
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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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The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from not being quite sated.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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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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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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