Nigella Lawson Quotes

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• You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

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  Inspirational, Live Well, Wells

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• You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

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  Food, Knowing, Want

  Nigella Lawson (2017). “Eating: Vintage Minis”, p.16, Random House

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• I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

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  Chef, Cooks, Qualifications

  Nigella Lawson (2017). “Eating: Vintage Minis”, p.10, Random House

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• Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

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  Food, Pie, Want

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• Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

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  Cheese, Sometimes, Spread

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• I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

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  Food, Thinking, Cooking

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• I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

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  Believe, Eating, Cooks

  "Eating: Vintage Minis". Book by Nigella Lawson, 2017.

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• I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

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  People, Double Entendre

  "You Ask The Questions". The Independent, September 12, 2002.

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

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  Wine, Literature, Taste

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• I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

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  Believe, Cooking, Literature

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• But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.

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  Sex, Thinking, Enemy

  "The big issue" by Shane Watson, The Times, December 02, 2007.

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• 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 that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.

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  Jesus, Atheist, Believe

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• (In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

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  Cooking, Tinkering, Rooms

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• Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

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  Believe, Food, Cake

  Nigella Lawson (2012). “How To Be A Domestic Goddess”, p.20, Random House

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• Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

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  Oil, Giving, Depth

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• I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.

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  Thinking, People, Style

  "British Sensation Lawson Says Cooking Should Be About Fun, Family". Oakland Tribune, June 04, 2003.

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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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  Cooking, Elements, Literature

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• I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

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  Happiness, Thinking, May

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• I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do.

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  Clothes, Cooking, Driving

  "Envy, Lust and Gluttony - the Perfect Recipe" by Jane Warren, www.express.co.uk. September 20, 2007.

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• And cooking is about balance and harmony.

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  Balance And Harmony, Cooking, Literature

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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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  Thinking, People, Soul

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

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  Funny, Dumb, Trophies

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• Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.

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  People, Feelings, Titles

  "A Woman of Extremes". Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 14, 2001.

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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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  Looks, Literature, Want

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• Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while.

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  Lying, Ducks, Sauce

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