Sandi Toksvig Quotes

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Sandi Toksvig

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 3, 1958

Food is an international language, an expression of love.

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I'm political in the sense that there's much to be done, but I'm apolitical in the sense that I don't think there's a party that represents anything I believe in.

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Although I'm sure she's completely charming and delightful, I'm not sure if Kate Middleton might be the best role model. This is a person who has got where she is by marriage, a person whose weight, clothing, hair we worry about - we don't worry about what she's thinking.

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When people say, 'There aren't enough women on panel shows,' the answer is to make the host a woman.

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I haven't the energy to despise anyone.

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My life won't have full quality until we achieve equality for all.

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I dislike hatred, offence, unkindness.

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I get in a temper with inanimate objects. I can't bear plastic. I do get in a complete rage with something that's been shrink-wrapped.

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There are panel shows that struggle to get women on, and that's because the women feel marginalised and stupid and in the edit are often seen just laughing at the boys and not saying anything at all even though I know for a fact in the recording they were clever. I'm not shy at speaking up, but even I, on those shows, am silenced.

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I think kids are in your temporary care, and that they probably arrive with pretty much the personalities they're going to have. I grew up in a perfectly traditional family and turned out how I did. I'm not sure there's much that the family can do except lots of love and lots of care and lots of chances for them to develop the best they can.

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What I think is if the world is in some difficulty - about climate change, about economics - then we had better make sure that 100 per cent of every brain available on the planet is working at full pelt to try to sort these things out.

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Is raising boys different from raising girls? Oh my goodness, yes! It's a different species, and I love them for that.

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With my daughters, it didn't matter how much it was not my thing, we went through two truly horrible pink phases. I bought an awful lot of Barbie rubbish, and it was a great day when I was allowed to send Barbie's house to the skip. That was one of the best days of my life.

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I've always liked being able to go around incognito in Copenhagen.

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The truth is I have never been any good at sport, OK?

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The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

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I was born gay, OK? I've always known. I don't think my family were the least bit surprised.

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I don't think secrets are a good thing. I think they are a cancer of the soul. So I decided to come out.

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When my three children were little, I took them to Rome. On our way to our destination, we went to see the Colosseum and returned to the car to find everything had been stolen. Trying to buy everything for a week, including clothing for three small, very tired children, was a low point in my life.

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I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I'm too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.

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