Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lucy Lawsonis an English journalist, broadcaster, television personality, gourmet, and food writer. She is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and VanessaLawson, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. food and catering business. After graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, Lawson started work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist,...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 January 1960
CityLondon, England
I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.
Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
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.
There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
I don't like conflict.
And cooking is about balance and harmony.
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.
I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.
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.
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.
There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.
I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.