Padma Lakshmi Quotes - Page 2

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• I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Writing, Want, Fantasy

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• Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Wine, Emotional, Thinking

  "And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview by Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

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  Mother, Daughter, Cousin

  "Padma Lakshmi: I Don’t Parent Alone" by Yahoo! Shine interview, celebritybabies.people.com. November 03, 2011.

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• People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

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  Thinking, Clothes, People

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• Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.

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  Song, Singing, Body

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• I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

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  Wine, Thinking, Glasses

  "And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

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  Beautiful, Phones, People

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• My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

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  Mom, Squares, Scared

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• Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

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  Thinking, Years, Luxury

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• You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

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  Christmas, Wind, Tree

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• Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

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  Flower, Wine, Rose

  "And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.

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• In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

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  Southern, Spain, Bulls

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• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

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  Mom, New York, Kids

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• I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.

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  Sleep, Sensual, Sound

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• Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.

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  Stars, Player, Want

  "Padma Lakshmi On Her New Jewelry Line (And The Dos And Don'ts Of Bling!)". Interview with Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2009.

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• One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

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  Morning, Turkeys, Body

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• I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

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  Wine, Thinking, People

  "And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.

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  New York, Careers, Paris

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. December, 2007.

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• I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Sometimes

  "The GQA: Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

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  Jobs, Giving, Criticism

  Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

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  Fashion, Writing, Good Friend

  "Beautiful and damned" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

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• The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.

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  Real, Writing, Lucky

  "Beautiful and damned" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

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• I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.

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  Work Out, Burgers, Want

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• From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

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  Children, Blessed, Simple

  "A model who eats? She wrote the book" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2004.

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