Nigella Lawson quotes - page 2

It's like I can never watch myself on TV unless I have to do some editing before a show comes out. It's like hearing your voice back on a tape recorder and I'm sure you know how horrible that is. I always look for the worst things in myself - criticising my hair and stuff. I'm very self-conscious about it all. (Nigella Lawson)
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. View quote
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There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. View quote
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Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true. View quote
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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. View quote
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It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst. View quote
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Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies. View quote
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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. (Nigella Lawson)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity. View quote
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I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out. View quote
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In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes. View quote
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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. View quote
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I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour. View quote
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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. (Nigella Lawson)
I don't believe in low-fat cooking. View quote
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I don't take criticisms personally, which must be very annoying for people who mean them personally. View quote
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Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef. View quote
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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. View quote
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