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Toby Young


British
1963
Journalist
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I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.


Toby Young
Tags: Being Over Miss
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The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.


Toby Young
Tags: Will Go Even
'Top Chef' is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
Toby Young
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
Tags: Work Had Than
My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.
Toby Young
Tags: Just Life Some
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
Tags: You Know Then
I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here.
Toby Young
Tags: Food People Just
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
Tags: Think Really Up