Nigella Lawson Quotes
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And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
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It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
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I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.
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Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while.
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I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.
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On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
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I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.
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I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.
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While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.
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I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.
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I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.
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I don't believe in low-fat cooking.
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It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.
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If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.
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I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.
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I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
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Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.
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In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.
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At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
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But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.
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There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.
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I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.
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Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for example, people don't begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day's work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec.
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I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.
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I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.
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I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.
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You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?
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You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
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It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.
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I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.
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