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Victoria Coren Mitchell

English Writer

Born: Aug 18, 1972

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The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in. Victoria Coren Mitchell

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Sad Relationship Wonderful Complicated Everyone Does Maybe Zoo

Nature made your eyebrows like that for a reason. I don't know the reason. Some people say it's to do with keeping rain out of monkeys' eyes. Whatever. The point is, if you try to redesign your eyebrows with tweezers and pens, it will look terrible. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Nature You Rain Eyes People Try Will Made Some People Whatever Say Out Eyebrows Pens People Say Some Point Like Know Look Terrible Redesign Your Reason Keeping Monkeys

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Glasses Vain Too Contact Short-Sighted Lenses

When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Learning Thought Drive Big Changing Gear Were Lane Milestones

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

Good Facebook People World Desperate Become Other Mindless Everything Bad Divided Categories Likes Reduce Dislikes Good And Bad Each Including

Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Funny Women Fear Comedy TV Variety Women Are Being Them Reasons

I've always hated the idea of carrying grudges and resentments around like a load of mouldy suitcases. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Suitcases Carrying Hated Idea Like Around Always Grudges Load

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. Victoria Coren Mitchell

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

Impossible Scent Cloud Nice Perfume Identify Within Chemical Department

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. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Life You Live Babysitting Extraordinary Way Status Give Only Doing Ordinary Ordinary Life Meaning Granny Jeans Actually Royal

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

Art Sense Bossy Longer Mastered Honest

Pudding is not a human right. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Human Human Right Right Pudding

My 'Only Connect' personality isn't put on: it's definitely me. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Me Personality Definitely Only Put Connect

In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Knowledge Ghastly Pianist Self-Expression His Camps Artistic Transformed Act

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

Education Half Build Peer Point Social Groups Bonds

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. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Love Family Pride Husband Statement Married Take Had Instinct Name Like Felt Permanence Always Got Doing Been Done Romantic

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! Victoria Coren Mitchell

You Phone Phone Calls Rise Touch Through Driver Idea Calls Makes Does Mates Debates Texting Wheel Your Paying Keep

We all look stupid in patterned tights. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Stupid Look Tights

Socks and sandals together are absolutely fine, as long as your flares are wide enough to cover your feet. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Together Long Enough Fine Absolutely Feet Cover Your Wide Socks

Anger at the wealth gap is no longer about dukes in horse-drawn carriages; it's about vast, tax-dodging corporations. This will not be assuaged by seeing the royal family claiming to live like we do. If anything, that will make us angrier. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Family Anger Wealth Will Live Corporations Claiming Seeing About Vast Longer Like Make Anything Us Gap Royal Royal Family

I was a sporadically bossy child. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Bossy Child

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