#de

I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and made me angry. ↗

— Sean Young

#bad #because #depressed #fun #having

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras. ↗

— Sean Young

#city #devils #smiling

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. ↗

— Toby Young

#been #being #celebrity #establishment #got

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. ↗

— Toby Young

#aptitude #being #catering #even #had

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything. ↗

— Toby Young

#describe #i #master #myself

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

#become #befall #disaster #exactly #failure

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

#britain #celebrate #chances #class #condemn

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

#backyard #bbc #between #britain #budget

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake. ↗

— Toby Young

#deliver #intake #no reason #reason #why

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? ↗

— Toby Young

#another #dinner #dinner party #else #everyone