Mary Berry Quotes
Reluctant as I am to regard myself as a style icon, I would love to think I could inspire older women to make the most of themselves.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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My dad's not a big talker.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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Everything I do has an underlying political question.
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Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.
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It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.
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We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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Reluctant as I am to regard myself as a style icon, I would love to think I could inspire older women to make the most of themselves.
