Mary Berry Quotes
At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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In fashion, you're privileged because you're consistently working with a vanguard of youth.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.
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The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.
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At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.
