Padma Lakshmi Quotes

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

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• I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • World
  • Mean
  • Style

• I don't miss acting at all.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Acting
  • Miss

• There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • You

• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • You
  • Know
  • Something

• Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Successful
  • Down
  • Limits

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Creative

• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Classes
  • Accent

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • World
  • Believe
  • Done

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • America
  • Mother
  • Career

• 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!

  

  Randy West
  • Experience
  • Never Forget

• My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Freedom
  • Artist
  • Creative

• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Play
  • Playing

• There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Women
  • Change
  • Better

• Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Help
  • Pain
  • Emotional

• I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and... actually, it is fine.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Together
  • I Can
  • Pink

• I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Want
  • Make

• I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • People
  • Life
  • Pretty

• The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Best