Nigella inhabits a strange world of extremes: she has experienced extreme tragedy, extreme success and has the advantage of extreme beauty.
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Nigel Farndale in "A woman of extremes" in The Daily Telegraph (May 2001)Nigella Lawson
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I stared down at the cemetery and the sight felt rich, rewarding, physically so, in the actual eyes. The very eyeball itself felt good. I became the most recent person on earth to see that everyone in every single or double plot had known life in all its extremes. They had all known extreme pain and stress; all been overjoyed. All had been enchanted; and they'd all known extreme grief so bad they thought it must be meant for another species.
Robert Newman
For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.
Hippocrates
The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification — framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.
Michael Crichton
It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
Sir Walter Raleigh
[She described Amazons, who battled against Greeks, as] an extreme, feminist wing of a young human race, whose other extreme wing consisted of the stringent patriarchies.
Bertha (a.k.a. Helen Diner) Diener
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