Nigella Lawson Short Quotes

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Diets are like boyfriends—it never really works to go back to them.

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I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.

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

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I don't take criticisms personally, which must be very annoying for people who mean them personally.

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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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I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

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... obesity isn't caused by those who adore food. People tend not to put on weight through eating meals. I'd say it's people who eat non-stop.

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You will cook the way you live, but the very important difference is that when you cook you have to leave your head and let your body take over.

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The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.

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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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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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It's not meant to be flirtatious. Listen, I don't have a presenting style, I'm just me. I don't have the talent to adopt a different persona. It's intimate, not flirtatious.

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I wouldn't have written about food if my mother and sister hadn't died because I would have had them to talk to. I'm not into the performance of cooking. It's a conversation for me.

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Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it? And maintaining just the right distance. And my children see me as I am right now as I'm talking to you, in sweat pants and vest and no makeup.

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