Nigella Lawson Quotes

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Nigella Lawson

Profession : Journalist

Birth : January 6, 1960

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

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There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

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Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

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Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

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I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

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On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

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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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There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

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I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

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There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

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It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

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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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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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I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

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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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You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

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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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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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I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

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