Nigella Lawson Quotes About Literature
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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 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 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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I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
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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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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'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.
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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.
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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 sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
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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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Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
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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.
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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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Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
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And cooking is about balance and harmony.
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Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.
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