I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate us, as a species, and it's all rather frightening.


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I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE
The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE
The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to fe...
LAURIE COLWIN
I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how ...
LAURIE COLWIN
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
LAURIE COLWIN
As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think ...
LAURIE COLWIN
The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.
LAURIE COLWIN
My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboa...
LAURIE COLWIN
Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by pract...
LAURIE COLWIN
It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel...
LAURIE COLWIN
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed...
LAURIE COLWIN
I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in.
LAURIE COLWIN
Unlike some people who love to go out, I love to stay home.
LAURIE COLWIN
Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.
LAURIE COLWIN
Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in ...
LAURIE COLWIN
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what peo...
LAURIE COLWIN
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what th...
LAURIE COLWIN
Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.
LAURIE COLWIN
One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for...
LAURIE COLWIN
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.
LAURIE COLWIN
Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.
LAURIE COLWIN
I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, b...
LAURIE COLWIN
Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even ver...
LAURIE COLWIN
The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
LAURIE COLWIN
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by gen...
LAURIE COLWIN
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
LAURIE COLWIN
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at ...
LAURIE COLWIN
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare...
LAURIE ANDERSON
I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the ...
HUGH LAURIE
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be...
HUGH LAURIE
I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are cha...
LAURIE GRAHAM
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, ...
HUGH LAURIE
Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me ab...
LAURIE PENNY
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
HUGH LAURIE
I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you oft...
HUGH LAURIE
Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.
LAURIE GRAHAM
When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you we...
LAURIE SIMMONS
I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories ar...
LAURIE GRAHAM
In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-coo...
LAURIE GRAHAM
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-...
LAURIE ANDERSON