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Nigella Lawson

27 quotes

“The trouble with modern cooking is that the mood it induces in the cook is one of skin-of-the-teeth efficiency, all briskness and little pleasure.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How to be a Domestic Goddess (2000), quoted by Hadley Freeman in "Nigella Lawson: 'I didn't think I’d be a mended person, but I am'", The Guardian (10 October 2020).
“There are two Christmas traditions I've inherited from my mother. One is the feeling that Christmas isn't complete if you haven't got a ham as well as a turkey. It means that the leftovers are much better. And in a curious way, despite the fact that we're talking about Christmas and ham, it's a very Jewish thing to want to provide a huge spread. I always cook for eight, but make enough to feed 30...”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Harriet Lane "An angel at our table", The Guardian (17 December 2000)
“While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sapphism is more than designer-dykery", The Guardian (31 December 2000)
“My sister lives in New York and she was struck by how class-ridden the reviews were. Everyone had to mention that I'm posh. British people are obsessed by that. I said to John, 'I'm not posh.' Is my voice posh?”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Alex Bilmes in "Say What You Like About Nigella Lawson", Q Magazine (January 2001)
“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.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Joe Dolc in "England's It Girl", Gourmet (April 2001)
“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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“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.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Simon Hattenstone in "Reality bites", The Guardian (2 September 2002)
“Cooking aside, I am what you'd call a domestic slut. Cooking is really the only domestic activity I enjoy. I would do anything not to do the normal bits of household work - it's not one of my strong points.”
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“It's like I can never watch myself on TV unless I have to do some editing before a show comes out. It's like hearing your voice back on a tape recorder and I'm sure you know how horrible that is. I always look for the worst things in myself - criticising my hair and stuff. I'm very self-conscious about it all.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by James Ellis in "Nigella Lawson", Metro (4 September 2002)
“[A]ll food images, if they are successful, have the power to arouse appetite. They should be luscious and sexy. I have no embarrassment about the culinary come-on. But that's the limit of my erotic intent. I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "You Ask The Questions", The Independent (12 September 2002), p. 7
“I think cooking should be about fun and family. [...] I'm not a trained chef. I don't pretend to be and I think part of my appeal is that my approach to cooking is really relaxed and not rigid. There are no rules in my kitchen.”
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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.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Beth Cooney in "British sensation Lawson says cooking should be about fun, family", Oakland Tribune (4 June 2003)
“I always wanted to be called Caroline [...] Carolines were always very nice in books.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After being asked about growing up with the feminine form of her father's first name, as cited in Sally Vincent "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?", The Guardian (16 October 2004)
“I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.”
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“I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.”
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“I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.”
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“I am greedy. I eat under stress. When you are eating, the rest of the world is tuned out. And when you tune back in you feel guilty about having been greedy and the rest of the world is still there, so you have to carry on eating!”
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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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“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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“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.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Jane Warren in "Envy, Lust and Gluttony - The Perfect Recipe", Daily Express (20 September 2007)
“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.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Shane Watson in "The big issue", The Times (2 December 2007)
“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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“It wasn't really a chat show, it was a magazine show. I looked at it as a summer job. As long as no one makes me interview a celeb again, I'll be happy. It wasn't what I signed up for but, of course, nowadays everyone likes celebs. I'm pretty bored of them, though. I wasn't interested and couldn't be bothered to pretend I was.”
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“[O]besity 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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“Everybody likes to think cooks are nurturing, but maybe we're just controlling – controlling what people eat.”
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“Sometimes I think food preoccupies me too much. [...] The only thing that keeps me going at the theatre is thinking about what I'll eat afterwards, although now I bring sandwiches because I can't bear it”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Hadley Freeman in "Nigella Lawson: 'I didn't think I’d be a mended person, but I am'", The Guardian (10 October 2020).
“[Asked if cookery writing is a form of intimacy] I think there both is and isn't. I feel that writing about food allows one to be utterly honest, and personal, and in no way guarded. But, in some sense, it's a metaphor for the personal, rather than being actually personal. It's not revelatory, I would say. It's personal without being confessional. That's the kind of personal that I feel more comfortable with.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Helen Rosner in "Nigella Lawson Wants to Talk to People", The New Yorker (14 April 2021)