"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
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"I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.“
-Padma Lakshmi
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"In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends."
-Padma Lakshmi
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"One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter."
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"I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to."
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"I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other."
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"My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go."
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"I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place."
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"The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history."
-Frank Waters
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"So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place."
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"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes."
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"In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity."
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"A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him."
-Arthur Symons
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