Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

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Victoria Coren Mitchell

Profession : Writer

Birth : August 18, 1972

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

Given the choice, I'm sure the majority of children would rather have a packed lunch than school meals.

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Given the choice, the majority of children wouldn't go to school at all. The whole thing's ghastly.

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The best thing about universal free school meals is that they would remove one of the embarrassing signals, easily picked up by children's supersensitive antennae, of family poverty.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

Half the point of education is to build peer groups and social bonds.

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I had an instinct to take my husband's name when I got married. It felt like a romantic statement of pride, love, and permanence and of doing what's always been done in my family.

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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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Anyone who's tuned in to the House of Commons TV coverage knows the benches are often empty. I like that. I'm a big fan of political transparency. It's good for us to know which debates the MPs consider important enough to show up for, and which not.

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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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I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is a daily reminder of the ultimate ignorance of man. It is a signpost towards all the enormous things we cannot understand.

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You will enjoy the TV and radio forecast much more if you stop taking it as advice and simply treat it as a short poem about the weather.

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It is impossible to identify a nice scent from within the chemical cloud of a perfume department.

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We all look stupid in patterned tights.

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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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The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.

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If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be jeans and burgers and granny doing the babysitting.

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Seeking to ban things is as bossy as you can get.

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I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never won any kind of prize.

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I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.

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Politics is a pure meritocracy. That's why Gordon Brown's cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.

Victoria Coren Mitchell