Quotes by Toby Young - Page 1

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.
Toby Young / Journalist
Describe Myself
Masters
Owners
Anything
Describe
Master
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I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.
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Chef
Missing
Miss
Chefs
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I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.
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Envy
Fortune
Today
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In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.
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Capacity
Board
Impartial
Member
Objective
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The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.
Toby Young / Journalist
Careers
Successful
Tiny
Pan
Perceived
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There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.
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Curriculum
No Reason
Reason Why
School
Deliver
Intake
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If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.
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Leap
Obligation
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I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
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Organisation
Oxfam
Political
Writing
Years
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Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."
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Home
Growing Up
Spiritual
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America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
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Respect
Failure
America
Contempt
People
Thinking
Success Failure People
Itself
Thinks
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I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
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Academic
Academic Work
Aptitude
Catering
Labour
Mechanic
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People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.
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London
Manhattan
Miles
New Yorkers
People
Thinking
Three
World People New
Center
Outside
Whereas
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Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
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Running
Games
People
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'Top Chef' is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
Toby Young / Journalist
Chef
Incredibly
Professional
Top Chef
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My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.
Toby Young / Journalist
Ambition
Cat
Eye
Villain
Waiting
Bond
Phone
James
James Bond
Rung
Though
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I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.
Toby Young / Journalist
Failure
Disaster
Mortgage
Order
Pay
Right Moment
Seems
Unemployed
Always Moment Me
Befall
Exactly
Luckily
Remain
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The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 - doesn't disqualify me from serving on the board of the OfS.
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Cambridge
Serving
Taught
University
Board
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I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.
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Guardian
Newspapers
Pieces
Unusual
Waiting
Writing
At Least One
Column
Fired
Wait
Hired
Least
Piece
Submitted
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You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?
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Dinner
Dinner Party
Laughing
Party
Repeats
Self
Self Deprecating
Same Story
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I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.
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Analysis
Father
Parent
People
Psychological
Literate
Picked
Shrink
Talked
Undergone
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I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here.
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British
Chef
Outspoken
Rude
Swear
Judge
Simon
Top Chef
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I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.
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Happy Experience
Humorous
Thinking
Writing
Love Experience Me
Love Experience Always
Broad
Column
Enable
Observer
Proper
Reach
Reporting
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I think that magazines like Vanity Fair are still operating under the old rules, and that if you come to work for a magazine like Vanity Fair, even today, you're certainly expected to treat people like Peggy Siegal very deferentially.
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People
Thinking
Vanity
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Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.
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Authority
Classic
Down And
Father
Symptoms
Troubled Relationship
Oddly
Troubled
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In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.
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Britain
Celebrate
Class
Contrast
Play
Thinking
Life Success Failure
Chances
Condemn
Determining
Inclined
Plays
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I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.
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Acceptance
Establishment
Granted
Identity
Long
Thinking
Petition
React
Wishing
Wrapped
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It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood.
Toby Young / Journalist
Home
America
Britain
Chef
Differences
Eating
Series
Home Food Your
Backyard
Bbc
Budget
Episode
Top Chef
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When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was reviewing it and had booked under a fake name, so free stuff would start coming out of the kitchen on a conveyer belt, fantastic wines would be opened at my table. Now I can't even get a reservation on the pizza joint on the corner.
Toby Young / Journalist
Fake
Fantastic
Free Stuff
Pizza
Belt
Booked
Column
Corner
Joint
Opened
Recognized
Reservation
Restaurant
Reviewing
Table
Wines
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Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks' holiday during the summer, two weeks' holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes, they don't just work when they're at school, but even so, compared to a lot of other jobs, it's not that tough.
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Christmas
Easter
Holiday
Nine
School
Six
Summer
Tough
Two Weeks
Job
Teachers
Begins
Weeks
Compared
Complain
Yes
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I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West, and New York was like London at the height of the Victorian era, in which everyone was far more obsessed with table manners and status-climbing than they are in London. In London, everyone was just crawling over this blizzard of cocaine. Here, if you have more than a glass of wine with your meal, people refer you to Alcoholics Anonymous.
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New York
Ideas
Wine
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