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

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

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

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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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