Quotes from Nigella Lawson


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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.


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


I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.


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


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


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.


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.


Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.


I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.


I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.


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


In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.


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.


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.


'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.


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.


The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.


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.


Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.


I don't like conflict.