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| • | "lighting a cigarette", Los Angeles Times, Sep. 19, '88 |
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| • | "chain-smoked throughout an interview", New York Times, Oct. 5, '88 |
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| • | "casually smoking a Winston Light and reclining on a hotel couch", Toronto Star, Sep. 11, '91 |
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| • | "As she had her lunch of chicken salad and smoked several cigarettes", The Record, Jan. 10, '93 |
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| • | "mulling the question as she flicks the ash off her cigarette", Los Angeles Times, Jan. 24, '93
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| • | "Fidgeting nervily when we met for lunch, biting her nails and chain-smoking, she begged me not to look at her too closely", New York Times, Jun. 6, '93 |
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| • | "The Neeson-Richardson baby is due in June, and the parents-to-be have sworn off smoking. 'Five and a half weeks!' said Neeson proudly. 'He's better than me', said his wife. 'I've had the occasional one, for nerves, like tonight, it's like, `Give me one!' But he hasn't touched one'", USA Today, Dec. 8, '94 |
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| • | Admits she smokes when she's not pregnant, where?, Jul. '95 |
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| • | "a restaurant she likes ... because they allow her to smoke", New York Times, Mar. 15, '98 |
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| • | "So stupid, these rigid rules. You almost expect them to erect a warning sign above us 'Health hazard - smokers in residence!'", "You do have to get used to these silly rules about smoking and the fact that New Yorkers are people who live to work, instead of working to live.", The Times (UK), Mar. 16, '98 |
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| • | "nestling into a pre theater lunch at one of the few Manhattan restaurants that allow her to light up her treasured Vogue cigarettes", Prada magazine, Jul. 31, '98
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| • | "nestling into a pretheater lunch at one of the few Manhatten restaurants that allow her to light up her treasured Vogue cigarettes", Entertainment Weekly, Jul. 31, '98, p. 32 |
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| • | "stubbing out her cigarette rather violently", Observer (UK), Dec. 6, '98
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| • | "I'm a smoking fiend.", Daily News Online, Dec. 20, '00
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| • | "'There are enormous differences between life in a concentration camp and living in a closet,' the tall, willowy actress said during a Journal interview at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pasadena, a Vogue cigarette dangling from her slender fingers", Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, Feb. 2, '01
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| • | "British actress Natasha Richardson is fighting for smokers, who are banished from New York restaurants, except bar areas...has written to Mayor Rudolph Giulliani on behalf of those 'few beleaguered smokers' who remain, lambasting the 'the (sic) righteous anti-smoking brigade'. She is among the city's 'power smokers' who blithely ignore the ban at such places as DaSilvano and Elaine's, which turn a blind eye to keep their celebrity customers", Daily Express (UK), Apr. 12, '01 |
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| • | "'What a beautiful story', exclaimed Natasha Richardson, squeezed tight into a Dolce & Gabbana dress and puffing on a swizzle stick-thin cigarette at the after-party at Fred's at Barneys", Discover Kate Winslet website, Dec. 3, '01 |
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| • | "Tonight on ABC, another Piece of -- It: a remake of The Parent Trap, starring Dennis Quaid and New York City smokers' rights activist Natasha Richardson", New York Observer, Dec. 10, '01 |
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| • | "'My life in New York is about to become hell', says Natasha Richardson, in high dramatic manner ... Striding over to open a window of the London hotel suite with the flamboyance of someone proud of her svelte frame ... It is her fondness for 'naff' long, thin cigarettes that is about to ruin her life. 'From the end of this month, they are banning smoking in New York bars and restaurants', she says, pulling one of the eloquent grimaces that have made her a hit in recent comedies, notably The Parent Trap. 'But it doesn't matter because, on that day, I start work over here (in London)'", Daily Telegraph (UK), Feb. 27, '03 |
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| • | "You can make your own life in New York, although there are sacrifices - like missing London, family, friends and Tetley teabags. You do have to get used to these silly rules about smoking and the fact that New Yorkers are people who live to work, instead of working to live", The Mirror (UK), Mar. 7, '03 |
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| • | "'I really hope my sons don't want to act', she explains, extinguishing a cigarette into a polystyrene cup ... She smokes almost continuously - a habit she kicked only briefly, when pregnant with her second child: 'I couldn't quit when I got pregnant the first time and the next time I felt so guilty about it that I did', she says, her voice betraying no guilt at all. 'But I haven't tried to give up since'...lighting another of her 'unbelievably naff' pipe-cleaner-shaped cigarettes", Sunday Telegraph (UK), Apr. 27, '03
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| • | "Somewhat self-consciously, she lit a Vogue Superslim cigarette and inhaled deeply ... crushing out her cigarette", The New Yorker, Mar. 28, '05
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| • | "People in life are a mass of contradictions: I work out in a gym and yet I smoke", Gay City News, Apr. 7-13, '05
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| • | same, Playbill, May 5, '05
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| • | "still smokes, and feels that her habit doesn't necessarily tie in to the public's tendency to light up. 'I smoke; it doesn't mean I promote smoking, but a quarter of the population still smokes. I don't think [my smoking] promotes it, but it is a fact of life' ", Yahoo Entertainment, Aug. 10, '05
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| • | "Politely inquiring whether I mind if she smokes, Natasha Richardson slips a long, thin cigarette from an elegant silver case and lights it", The Independent (UK), Sep. 2, '05
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| • | "is smoking. In public. Clearly relishing the freedom to indulge her habit openly in a packed Berlin hotel room, the English-born actress is bemoaning the oppressiveness of the smoking ban in her adopted home of New York. 'Its impossible,' she complains, in her trademark husky voice. 'I hardly ever go out any more. I always have friends over. Because its misery - going out to stand shivering on the pavement, then everyone starts talking bullshit about how business went up after the ban'", Scottish Sunday Herald (UK), Sep. 4, '05 |
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| • | "in that gravelly baritone voice which sounds like she has been up all night drinking and smoking with a bunch of sailors ... After a long drag on a cigarette (she has one constantly lodged between her fingers)", Sunday Independent (Ireland), Sep. 4, '05 |
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| • | "Gotham magazine says I don't smoke at home. And I'm afraid to say: I do. Where else am I going to smoke?", New York Daily News, Dec. 7, '05 |
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| • | "Natasha Richardson is beginning to feel like an outcast in her adopted home of New York because the city is clamping down on smokers. The star is a self-confessed 'miserable addict' who smokes over a pack of cigarettes a day, and she's feeling more and more like she isn't welcome in New York City. She explains, 'I don't go out as much as I used to because I can't smoke anywhere'. And she admits her husband Liam Neeson is forever trying to encourage Richardson to quit. She adds, 'Sometimes he gets on my case about it and sometimes he's very patient. I don't smoke at home. I really hate smoky atmospheres. I think I'd be able to give it (smoking) up easier if people would stop saying, 'Don't do it.' Part of me likes being a rebel'", Contactmusic.com, Dec. 21, '05
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| • | "she took classes like 'Animal Study', where she would observe an animal and become it in class. She picked a potoroo, 'the most obscure animal I could find' -- it's a rat-like kangaroo -- 'and spent most of my time in the zoo cafe drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes'", Boston Globe, Jan. 8, '06
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| • | "sparking up a cigarette with the relish of one who lives in smoke-free New York", London Evening Standard (UK), Feb. 2, '06
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| • | "sits, in an elegant silk dress, having a quick smoke before she rejoins Ralph Fiennes for their close-up... stubs out her cigarette", The Guardian (UK), Mar. 30, '06
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| • | "Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson & Aidan Quinn @ Broadway play 'Festen' on April 27th - Natasha was smoking a cigarette", Gawker.com, May 2, '06
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| • | "She fortified her willpower with cigarettes and Diet Coke", Telegraph (UK), Mar. 19, '09
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| • | quit - "she was so proud to report she'd finally quit smoking", People Magazine, Mar. 24, '09
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