Nigella Lawson Quotes

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
Nigella Lawson

Life, Others, Anxiety

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
Nigella Lawson

Sometimes, Actually, Quite

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

Christmas, Whole, Child

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

Future, Turn, Plans

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

Someone, Wonderful, Patient

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
Nigella Lawson

Sympathy, Time, Around

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.
Nigella Lawson

Life, Time, Live

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
Nigella Lawson

True, Emotion, Messy

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

Laugh, Makes, Knows

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.
Nigella Lawson

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

Wine, Ask, Taste

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.
Nigella Lawson

Between, Difference, Seem

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.
Nigella Lawson

Life, Yourself, Between

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.
Nigella Lawson

Through, Read, Head

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.
Nigella Lawson

Funny, Yourself, Nothing

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

Change, Makes, Quality

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

Someone, She, Sure

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
Nigella Lawson

Yourself, Understand, Why

I don't like conflict.
Nigella Lawson

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.
Nigella Lawson

Hate, Frightened

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

Teen, Quiet, Full

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

Good, Fact, Authority

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

Respect, Fact, Quite

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.
Nigella Lawson

Life, Happens, Sounds

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

Married, Happily, Tend

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: January 6, 1960

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