Mary Berry Quotes
Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
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I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.
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I really use social media to keep up with what's happening.
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For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
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Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.
