Padma Lakshmi Quotes

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

Padma Lakshmi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: September 1, 1970

Topics

YouWantImpressJewishMothers

My mood board is archival images of Brigitte Bardot and Iman, and Naomi Campbell in the '90s.

Jillian Hervey

MoodImagesBoardNaomiCampbell

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

Joanne Harris

I CanWriteNeedLaptopAbsolutely

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

John Banville

DeathThinkYouPlaceGoStrange

Do you think it's a good idea to be sarcastic about slavery?

Angela Rye

GoodSlaveryThinkYouSarcastic

I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.

Andy Mineo

LifeSuccessMeProblemDoingNeed

I guess as far as leftists are concerned, the United States can't qualify as a 'cultured society' simply because we've actually created a society that works.

Steven Crowder

SocietyUnitedBecauseFarConcerned

When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before.

Missy Elliott

MeThinkSomeoneYouSayComparison

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

Mildred Dresselhaus

LifePeopleThinkingEasyEarlyGet

People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

Joyce Carol Oates

HomeLiveGreatPeopleTryBring

What I think was a really lucky coincidence was that a lot of the themes of 'Okja' are things I write about a lot: cognitive dissonance and corporate greed and also the internal politics of fringe groups.

Jon Ronson

PoliticsThinkGreedLuckyWrite

I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

Autumn Reeser

LoveGoodFoodExperienceCreative

As a kid, I wanted to be a sportscaster. On the radio. I loved the idea of painting a picture. I didn't want to be on TV. I wanted to be Jon Miller, who called all the Orioles games.

Thomas Kail

PaintingLovedPictureWantGames

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