Victoria Coren Mitchell

Writer

1972-08-18

Quotes by Victoria Coren Mitchell

• I like snow, but I don't want to live in Siberia.

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• Socks and sandals together are absolutely fine, as long as your flares are wide enough to cover your feet.

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• My speeding offences (whether caught or not) are always in situations where the speed limit is 30, but I think it's 40. And I'm never doing 40, always a careful 37.

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• I pay higher premiums because my speeding points spell 'recklessness' to the insurance company, but you can't imagine how risk-averse I am at the wheel. I only go over 30 at all because it's dangerous to drive too much slower than everyone else.

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• Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house.

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• Society is notoriously stupid in its failure to harness the wisdom of older women in everything from television to politics, family life to boardrooms, and here is one reminiscing with honesty and realism about women's particular challenge: to create our professional and financial structures in the same period as our peak fertility.

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• I've always hated the idea of carrying grudges and resentments around like a load of mouldy suitcases.

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• The idea of MPs texting and emailing through debates makes my gorge rise, as it does when a minicab driver makes phone calls at the wheel. I'm not paying you to keep in touch with your mates!

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• I grew up near London Zoo, with which I was obsessed. I would lie in bed at night, thinking about the lions and tigers and wolves that were prowling only a few miles away.

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• We all look stupid in patterned tights.

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• The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.

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• Many poker players swear by sleeping a certain number of hours before a tournament, going to the gym in the morning, and 'clearing the mind.' Juggling two jobs alongside my chosen game, I never have time and am invariably sending work emails from my iPhone between hands.

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• The older you get, the more 'mindfulness' becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.

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• Weight gain is good because it makes your dresses tight. This is not necessarily classy or flattering, but it means you don't have to iron anything.

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• I'm convinced we go to school at the wrong time. I'd have been delighted, aged 12, to get out into the world and earn some money doing something menial.

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• London Zoo is amazing. I want to take my child there so that she can feel the awe and wonder I felt (and feel) myself.

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• I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

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