#ok

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#me #months #nine #pages #took

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#back #beautiful #beautiful things #few #had

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#cook #dinner #finishing #girl #gonna

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#christmas tree #does #fat #jewelry #just

I took my time to find the perfect girl. ↗

— Joe Namath

#girl #i #my time #perfect #time

The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#bonus #cookbooks #ever #general #guess

I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#cast #cook #earrings #gold #i

I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#birth #double #gain #give #i

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#because #cookbook #eats #everyone #fantasy

I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#area #areas #been #before #body