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Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

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Nigella Lawson
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 6
Journalist
Reality Television
Television Presenter
Writer
London
England
Nigella Lucy Lawson
Hon. Nigella Lucy Lawson
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Emotion
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You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
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I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
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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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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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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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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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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 am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.
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On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
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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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Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.
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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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I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
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And cooking is about balance and harmony.
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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 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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I'm not much of a drinker. I'm an eater more than a drinker. So I feel that I don't have to wait to get a hangover in order to eat these.
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You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.
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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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(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.
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