Toby Young

Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock,…

— Toby Young

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

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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…

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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…

— Toby Young

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and…

— Toby Young

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else…

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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…

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If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

— Toby Young

“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”

— Toby Young

In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.

— Toby Young

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

— Toby Young

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for…

— 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…

— 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…

— Toby Young

I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the…

— 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…

— Toby Young

“Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one…

— 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…

— Toby Young

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

— 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…

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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…

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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…

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I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.

— Toby Young

I think that magazines like Vanity Fair are still operating under the old rules, and that if you come to work for…

— Toby Young

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…

— Toby Young