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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.

Giles Coren

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
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.
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City Depend Entire Instant Madden Men Million Opinion People Strong Try
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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Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it’s no big deal, and it’s more important to have a glass of wine.
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I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.
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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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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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Anticipate Being Far Food Gone Meal Motion Pleasure Quite
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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Career Channel Know People Sidekick Spent Stand Suggest
People like me make modern life intolerable.
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Intolerable Life Mark Modern People
I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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Crazy Food Foodie Mad Opinion Strong
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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Beginning City Huddle Own Protection
The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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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 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
The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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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 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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