Nigella Lawson (Nigella Lucy Lawson) Quotes
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
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In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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I don't use labels a lot.
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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
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I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
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My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
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That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
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Hilda Reiss was the head of the Everyday Art Gallery. Hilda Reiss came from Germany, had trained at the original Bauhaus in Germany, and her training inspired her to think of anything that she liked as art.
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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
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It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
