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" 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. "

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Padma Lakshmi

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" It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. "

" I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't. "

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

" 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. "

" My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted. "

" Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing. "

" If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine. "

" I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans. "

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

" 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. "

" I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support. "

" People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. "

" 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. "

" Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way. "

" You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have. "

" I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety? "

" The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them? "

" During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes. "

" I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them. "

" I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide. "

Padma Lakshmi

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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. "

" 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. "

" I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. "

" Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try. "

" I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction. "

" 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. "

" I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear. "

Padma Lakshmi

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" I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. I've created four versions of the front-to-back necklace which actually gives you two necklaces in one. I love the way they swing and catch the light as a woman is walking away. You almost want to pull on it and stop her! "

" Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine. "