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Sandi Toksvig
British
Writer
Born:
May 3
,
1958
Life
Love
Me
Think
World
You
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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.
Sandi Toksvig
Good
Soul
Cancer
Think
Secrets
Out
Good Thing
Come
Decided
Thing
I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I'm too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.
Sandi Toksvig
Lie
Pool
Swimming
Think
Too
Sun
Relentless
Beach
Like
Lot
Cannot
Swimming Pool
When people say, 'There aren't enough women on panel shows,' the answer is to make the host a woman.
Sandi Toksvig
Woman
Women
People
Enough
Panel
Say
People Say
Host
Make
Answer
Shows
I haven't the energy to despise anyone.
Sandi Toksvig
Energy
Despise
Anyone
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.
Sandi Toksvig
Rage
Complete
Temper
Something
Objects
Bear
Been
Get
Inanimate
Plastic
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.
Sandi Toksvig
Love
Best
Family
Care
Think
Kids
Out
Pretty
Temporary
Except
Develop
Perfectly
Sure
How
Arrive
Traditional
Traditional Family
Lots
Up
Did
Going
Grew
Personalities
Them
Turned
Much
Your
Chances
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.
Sandi Toksvig
Change
World
Better
Try
Economics
Every
Think
Difficulty
Out
Some
Per
About
Had
Make
Sort
Sure
Climate
Climate Change
Brain
Cent
Available
Then
Planet
Working
Full
Things
Is raising boys different from raising girls? Oh my goodness, yes! It's a different species, and I love them for that.
Sandi Toksvig
Love
Girl
Goodness
Boy
Yes
Oh
Different
Them
Species
Raising
I've always liked being able to go around incognito in Copenhagen.
Sandi Toksvig
Able
Liked
Around
Always
Go
Being
Incognito
Copenhagen
The truth is I have never been any good at sport, OK?
Sandi Toksvig
Truth
Good
Truth Is
OK
Never
Sport
Been
Any
Women are not allowed to be polymaths; we're only allowed to do single maths.
Sandi Toksvig
Women
Single
Only
Allowed
Maths
Women Are
I hope I don't have an ego.
Sandi Toksvig
Hope
Ego
If you play-act for a living, it's better not to carry on doing it when you get home.
Sandi Toksvig
Home
You
Better
Living
Carry
Doing
Get
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?
Sandi Toksvig
Love
Be Happy
Happy
Ambition
Living
Like
Academic
Making
Am
Off
Stop
Jam
Figure
Showing
Why
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.
Sandi Toksvig
Love
Time
Yourself
Old
Books
Later
Flying
Classes
Weaving
No Time
Had
Bought
Loom
Teach
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.
Sandi Toksvig
Buy
Good
You
Feel Good
Yourself
Shopping
Down
Way
Worst
High
Feel
Make
Limited
Go
Options
Size
Your
Street
Things
The secret to my success is to work seven days a week. It's as disappointing an answer as the one about how to lose weight. Eat less. Sleep less. Very boring.
Sandi Toksvig
Success
Work
Lose
Secret
Seven
Boring
Eat
About
Week
Weight
Disappointing
Days
Answer
How
Very
Success Is
Less
Sleep
I'd love to be a joiner or a wood turner.
Sandi Toksvig
Love
Wood
Turner
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.'
Sandi Toksvig
Time
Me
Cake
Long
Lesbian
Would
About
Long Period
Put
Know
Period
Talking
Making
Referred
Newspapers
Really
Even
Ever
I had tried every diet out there - I would lose weight for a bit, then put it back on again.
Sandi Toksvig
Lose
Every
Back
Bit
Out
Would
Tried
Had
Weight
Put
Diet
Again
Then
I was never interested in how I look.
Sandi Toksvig
Never
Look
How
Interested
My dad died of a massive heart attack when he was 59, as he didn't look after himself.
Sandi Toksvig
Heart
Attack
He
Look
Massive
Himself
Died
After
Dad
Mostly, I'm totally happy in my own space at home with the door closed with my family and friends.
Sandi Toksvig
Home
Family
Happy
Space
Closed
Own
Totally
My Own
Mostly
Friends
Family And Friends
Door
I've met Theresa May, and I think she's a good person. I'm not someone who goes, 'Ooooh, boooo, the Tories,' or 'Ooooh, boo' anyone, actually. You sit down and have a sensible conversation, and she is really, really capable of having a sensible conversation.
Sandi Toksvig
Good
You
Conversation
Good Person
Met
Sit
Down
Think
Boo
Tories
Someone
Having
She
Person
Goes
May
Anyone
Sensible
Capable
Really
Who
Theresa
Actually
Oh my God, don't ever start a political party. It's exhausting.
Sandi Toksvig
God
Political
Party
Exhausting
Political Party
Oh
Oh My God
Ever
Start
It was actually having a son made me think about feminism.
Sandi Toksvig
Me
Son
Made
Feminism
Think
About
Having
Actually
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