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Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while.

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Lying, Ducks, Sauce

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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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People, Childhood, Literature

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I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

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Turns, Plans, Know How

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I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

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Children, Should Have, People

"Nigella Lawson hits back at claims she plans to cut children out of will". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 3, 2008.

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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.

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Sex, Numbers, Way

"Sapphism Is More Than Designer-Dykery". www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2000.

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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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Hangover, Order, Waiting

"Why Eating Food Out Of A Bowl Makes Nigella Lawson Happy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 9, 2015.

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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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Mother, Book, Thinking

"England's It Girl". Gourmet, April 2001.

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Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

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Laughing, Chef, Make Me Laugh

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Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?

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Fashion, Style, Glamour

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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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Thinking, People, Skins

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Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for example, people don't begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day's work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec.

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Beautiful, Home, America

"Never mind the size, just feel the price". www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2000.

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Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

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Literature, Emotion, Messy

"Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

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Cooking, Cameras, Literature

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There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

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Vanity, Literature

"Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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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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Literature, Facts, Knows

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I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

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Thinking, Appetite For Life, Long

"Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

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Giving, Pleasure, Easier

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At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

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Anxiety, Literature, Overwhelmed

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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.

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Used, Fortune, Typhoid

"Reality Bites". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2002.

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There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

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Differences, Literature, Feels

"Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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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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Balance, Needs, Life Balance

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I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

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Literature, Patient, Wonderful

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I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

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Hate, Needs, Literature

"Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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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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Literature, Injustice, Vicious

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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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Grief, Condolences, Grieving

"Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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