Mary Berry Quotes

I walk, and I play tennis, but mainly I watch what I eat. I eat all the things that I love, including cake. Cake is very important to me. But it's all about the size of the slice!

Mary Berry

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• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
  • Something
  • Talk

• A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Consequences
  • Cope

• The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Writing
  • Woman
  • Story

• There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Like

• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • True
  • Me
  • Femininity

• I think we respond well when we do something well.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Something
  • Respond

• In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Age
  • You

• I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Lost

• I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Death

• If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • World
  • Feel

• If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • Different
  • Own

• I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Literature

• Just like anyone else, I watch a lot of reality TV yet will turn my nose up at some of it, e.g., ABC's 'Splash,' because I think I'm above it.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Up
  • Reality

• 'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Movie
  • House

• The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think simplicity's beautiful when you do it in the right way.

  

  V V Brown
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Simplicity

• I'm very underground.

  

  Eric Bogosian

• I walk, and I play tennis, but mainly I watch what I eat. I eat all the things that I love, including cake. Cake is very important to me. But it's all about the size of the slice!

  

  Mary Berry
  • Important
  • Tennis