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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
Emotion
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True
Contradictory
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It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?
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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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You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
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I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
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I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.
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I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.
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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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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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And cooking is about balance and harmony.
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(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.
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There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
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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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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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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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