Pippa Middleton Quotes

The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

If you give a party, you better give it right.

I have a lot of parties.

I throw the best parties.

I throw 14 parties a week.

When my mother threw a party, even as a kid, she'd call me in and say, 'Organize it for me.'

If you feel like you can't throw a party, just put a timeline together. There are always little things you can do ahead of time - like washing and pressing linens and bringing out your tableware. Check them off as you complete them.

If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's also social: food and a glass of wine would be involved often.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.

Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

If I host something, even if it's just dinner at my house, I like the event to move. So that means cocktails in the family room, and then moving outside and having appetizers on the patio, and then moving to dinner at the dining table. It's just the idea of the event being curated to every little detail.

Celebrations are great fun: bunting and this and that and the other.

There are so many moving parts to a wedding, and I, it turns out, am a bit of a perfectionist.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well.

Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time.

A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.