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Toby Young Quotes

Toby Young quotes

British Journalist

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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. Toby Young
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. Toby Young
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
Toby Young quote: "America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more..."
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. Toby Young
Toby Young quote: "The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my..."
The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan. Toby Young
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
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. Toby Young
Toby Young quote: "If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're..."
If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful. Toby Young
Toby Young quote: "I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political..."
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam. Toby Young
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. Toby Young
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. Toby Young
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
'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
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. Toby Young
People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan. Toby Young

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