Sandi Toksvig Quotes

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Sandi Toksvig

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 3, 1958

My wife and I drove across America following the Oregon Trail, which the pioneers once passed along.

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Sitting on a plastic chair at night listening to the sea lapping below while sipping a cold beer is about as good as life gets.

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Do you know there were two pilots made for 'Have I Got News For You' before the series started two decades ago: one hosted by Angus Deayton and one hosted by me. But I was told that they couldn't have a woman in charge of the news.

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I'm quite a shy person, and I dislike narcissism intensely.

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I hope I don't have an ego.

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If you play-act for a living, it's better not to carry on doing it when you get home.

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My ambition is to stop showing off. I'd love to be a tweedy academic. I'd be happy living in a croft. I like making jam. So why am I a semi-public figure?

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One of my life's watchwords is 'hyggelig.' It's an untranslatable Danish term for getting together with friends and family and sitting around in a cosy atmosphere with nice food and wine and candles.

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I love 'Teach Yourself' books. I bought an old weaving loom and had no time for classes, but one 'Teach Yourself' later, and my bobbin is flying.

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I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

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'QI' is exactly what the best TV ought to be - you learn something, but you are also crying with laughter.

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Like most women, my weight goes up and down.

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At my worst, I was a size 22, and at that size, you can't go down the high street and buy yourself things that make you feel good. Your shopping options are limited in a way they aren't when you are a size 12.

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I will try anything that doesn't involve a leotard.

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For three months, when I was 23 years old, I worked as a clerk at Wandsworth Sewer.

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I'd love to be a joiner or a wood turner.

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I wish I was fitter.

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I was once very unpleasantly groped while I was broadcasting by a famous individual who shall remain nameless. When I told the staff afterwards what had happened, everybody thought it was amusing. There was a shrugged shoulder approach to the whole thing.

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When we laugh out loud and we realize that there are others who think the same as us, then we feel better.

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There was a really long period of time when, if the newspapers ever referred to me, even if I was talking about, I don't know, cake making, they would put 'lesbian Sandi Toksvig.'

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