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Jamie Cullum Quotes

My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: August 20, 1979

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Mother Memories Food Cooking Kitchen

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Mom Reading Long You Belief Okay

I always knew that I liked guys. I just thought it was a normal thing to like guys but then also appreciate girls' attention too.

Thought Appreciate Attention Always

In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing.

Mother Honey Island Touch Juice Big

Confidence is the number one thing I find attractive.

Confidence Find Attractive One Thing

My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

Jasmine Guinness

Mirror Myself Child Face Wrinkles

Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Experience White Down New Knife She

I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.

Donald Johanson

Work Back Early Africa Ancestors

If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.

Black Think Doing White Never Bus

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

Courtney A. Kemp

Family Me Growing Up Black Growing

When work is going well, your home life struggles and vice versa. If my kids are OK - that is the most important thing. I strive for balance in my life, though.

Life Work Home Balance My Life Vice

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

People Me You Know Cry Okay

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

Life Education Mother Simple My Life

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