Giada De Laurentiis Quotes - Page 2

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• With my crazy schedule, that often means cutting into my sleep. But yoga gives me the energy and focus I need to get through my day. I'm not saying I don't need a cup of coffee in the afternoon sometimes, but it's the yoga that definitely keeps me centered.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Crazy, Coffee, Yoga

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• I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

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  Heart, Thinking, My Heart

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• I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.

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  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

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• I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I'm also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.

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  Stress, Impact, Relax

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• I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.

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  Girl, Mother, Home

  "Giada De Laurentiis Addresses John Mayer Rumors", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.

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  Wind, Cooking, Cameras

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• All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.

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  Kings, Men, Thinking

  "De Laurentiis Embraces 'Traditional Roles' of Wife, Mom" by Sara Hammel, people.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

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  Attitude, Changed

  "Get To Know Giada". Interview with Alice Park, content.time.com. June 02, 2006.

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• My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.

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  Mother, Pasta, Cheese

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• Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.

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  Yoga, Cutting, Gym Rats

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• I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

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  World, Tvs, My Family

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• I'm comfortable in my own skin. I know I'm not going to ever be Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson.

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  Skins, My Own, Knows

  "Giada De Laurentiis' slim-cooking secrets". The Fox News Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2012.

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• I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

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  Mom, Jobs, Children

  "Giada talks Mother's Day traditions". Interview with Vidya Rao, www.today.com. May 3, 2010.

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• It will be a great success to me if my family comes into the restaurant and says that they're proud of what I've done, they're proud of the way I've represented the De Laurentiis name, and that they love my food. That is the moment of pure pride for me.

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  Pride, Done, Proud

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• I'm not just a female chef. I'm a woman in a brand new hotel, and that's why I think it's so perfect to be at the Cromwell, in a corner of one of the busiest intersections of the world, with my name in lights. It's different in all those sorts of ways, and I'm hoping I'll be able to carry that through. Because if I can't, it's a step back for women in general. People will say - men will say - "See, that's why it's mostly men".

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  Men, Thinking, People

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• Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

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  New York, Sibling, Kids

  "Get To Know Giada". The TIME Interview, content.time.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.

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  Teacher, School, Kids

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• My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

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  Mother, Inspiration, Creativity

  "Get To Know Giada". "Time" Interview, content.time.com. June 2, 2006.

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• To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

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  Mother, Struggle, People

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• I'm most comfortable in T-shirts, but they have to have some style to them.

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  Style, T Shirt, Shirts

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• It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

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  Smart, People, Like You

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• I don't eat a lot of anything. A little bit of everything, but not a lot of everything. Small meals all day long.

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  Long, Meals, Littles

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• My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

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  Mother, Doors, Parent

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• I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!

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  People, Kitchen, Shy

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• These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

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  Mom, Kids, Eggs

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