Nigella Lawson Quotes

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• You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
• If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.
• I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
• On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
• I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
• I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.
• Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.
• And cooking is about balance and harmony.
• Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.
• You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
• Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.
• 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.
• 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…
• But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when…
• Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
• I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.
• I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
• I don't believe in low-fat cooking.
• I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or…
• I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money,

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