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.
GILES CORENI 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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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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It doesn’t matter how much of a hurry you think you are in. Be one of the people for whom ten minutes does not make a difference.
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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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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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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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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 first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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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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There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and then dump you half a mile away in the freezing wind and rain.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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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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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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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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